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Get a weekly report on what your YouTube viewers say

Comments on your recent videos are collected into a sheet, and every week you get an email on what viewers liked, asked and complained about.

Runs
Weekly
Apps
Google Sheets, YouTube
AI
Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
Access
YouTube API key; Sheets edit

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Create a ClickRuntime automation: every Monday, collect new comments on my channel's recent videos into my Comments sheet, then use AI to email me the main themes, common questions and video ideas.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

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Why use it

Why teams use this automation

A creator with a mid-sized channel gets hundreds of comments a week. They read the first few on each video and miss the rest, including repeated questions that would make a good follow-up video and complaints about audio that need fixing.

Collecting every comment into a sheet and summarising it weekly gives a clear picture of what the audience wants, without reading every reply.

What you get out of it

  • Video ideas from your audience

    Questions that keep coming up become a list of follow-up videos people have already asked for.

  • Problems are spotted early

    Repeated complaints about sound, pacing or length show up as a theme, not a scattered comment you happened to miss.

  • A searchable archive

    Every comment is kept in the sheet with its video and date, so you can search or filter them later.

  • Ten minutes instead of hours

    One email covers the week, so you know what viewers think without scrolling every video.

How it works

What happens, step by step

  1. Every Monday, ClickRuntime finds your channel's most recent videos.

  2. It collects the comments posted on them since last week and skips any it already has.

  3. New comments are added to your Comments sheet with the video and date.

  4. AI reads the new comments and writes up the main themes, common questions and video ideas.

  5. The report arrives in your inbox by email.

Before it runs live

  • Connect your Google Sheets account and pick the spreadsheets it may use
  • Connect YouTube

What you get

RunsWeekly
Get a weekly report on what your YouTube viewers saytoday, 9:00Succeeded
Email · Weekly comment report312 new comments. Most asked: "Can you do this in Excel too?" (24). Complaint: music too loud in the last two videos. Idea: a beginner version of the pivot table tutorial.

Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. Your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.
  • Your own rules

    Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.

  • Any number of apps

    One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.

  • AI where it helps

    Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.

  • On a schedule or on each event

    Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

Changes you can ask for

  • Run it at a different time, more or less often, or only on weekdays
  • Change what the AI looks for, or how it writes the result
  • Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
  • Combine it with other Google Sheets and YouTube steps into one automation

Under the hood

The code that runs this automation

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.
analyse_youtube_comments_and_email_a_report.pyexample
from google.oauth2.credentials import Credentials
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from clickruntime import on_trigger, http, credentials, ai, state, notify

YT = "https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3"

def yt(path, **params):
    return http.get(f"{YT}/{path}", params={**params, "key": credentials.secret("YOUTUBE_API_KEY")}).json().get("items", [])

def api(name, version):
    return build(name, version, credentials=Credentials(credentials.connection("google", "work")), cache_discovery=False)

SHEET_ID, UPLOADS = "your-spreadsheet-id", "UUxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    seen, rows = set(state.get("seen") or []), []
    for v in yt("playlistItems", part="contentDetails", playlistId=UPLOADS, maxResults=10):
        vid = v["contentDetails"]["videoId"]
        for c in yt("commentThreads", part="snippet", videoId=vid, maxResults=100, order="time"):
            s = c["snippet"]["topLevelComment"]["snippet"]
            if c["id"] not in seen:
                rows.append([s["publishedAt"][:10], vid, s["authorDisplayName"], s["textOriginal"][:500]])
                seen.add(c["id"])
    if not rows:
        return {"comments": 0}
    api("sheets", "v4").spreadsheets().values().append(spreadsheetId=SHEET_ID, range="Comments!A:D", valueInputOption="RAW", body={"values": rows}).execute()
    report = ai.generate("\n".join(r[3] for r in rows[:400]), system="Summarise these YouTube comments: main themes, common questions, "
                         "complaints, and 5 video ideas. Plain text.", max_output_tokens=700).text
    notify.email_me(f"YouTube comments this week ({len(rows)})", report)
    state.set("seen", sorted(seen)[-5000:])
    return {"comments": len(rows)}

FAQ

Common questions

Which videos does it look at?
Your most recent uploads, ten by default. You can change the number in the prompt.
Does it read replies to comments?
It collects top-level comments, which is where most questions and feedback are. Replies can be added if you want them.
Can it read comments on other channels?
Yes, public comments on any channel can be read with an API key, which is useful for researching similar channels.
What permissions does it need?
YouTube API key; Sheets edit. Nothing else in your accounts is used.
Does it need AI?
Yes. It uses ClickRuntime's built-in AI, so you don't need an OpenAI or Anthropic key. Every plan includes a monthly AI allowance.
How many runs does it use?
One run each time it runs (weekly). Checks that find nothing to do and stop right away aren't counted.
Can I change how it works?
Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

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