Weekly
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.
First time? Adding ClickRuntime to your assistant takes about two minutes.
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
Every Monday, ClickRuntime finds your channel's most recent videos.
It collects the comments posted on them since last week and skips any it already has.
New comments are added to your Comments sheet with the video and date.
AI reads the new comments and writes up the main themes, common questions and video ideas.
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
Build your own
Need it to work differently?
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
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?
Does it read replies to comments?
Can it read comments on other channels?
What permissions does it need?
Does it need AI?
How many runs does it use?
Can I change how it works?
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