Monthly

Turn viewer comments into video ideas

Once a month you get the themes viewers keep raising and a list of videos you could make next.

Runs: Monthly
Apps: YouTube
AI: Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
Access: youtube.readonly or API key

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: on the 1st of each month, read last month's comments on my videos and email me the top 5 themes and 10 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

Choosing what to film next is the hardest recurring decision on a YouTube channel. Most creators rely on instinct or on whatever performed well last time, while their own comment sections hold a month of direct requests: show the setup in detail, compare these two tools, explain the pricing. Nobody has the energy to read thousands of comments and tally what people ask for.

Once a month, comment threads related to your channel are pulled in, and ClickRuntime's built-in AI groups them into themes, such as common questions, requested topics and recurring complaints. It then turns the strongest themes into concrete video ideas, and the report is emailed to you.

Channels that publish weekly and want a steady supply of topics backed by audience demand are the natural users. Next month's topics then rest on what viewers wrote, not on a hunch.

What you get out of it

Ideas come from what viewers ask
A video that answers a question fifty viewers posted already has an audience waiting for it, which lowers the risk compared with a topic you only guessed at. Lower risk means fewer weeks lost to a video that nobody searched for.
A month of comments in five minutes
Reading a structured report replaces hours in YouTube Studio and still captures patterns that a quick skim of the latest comments would miss. That time saving is real for channels with thousands of comments per month.
Confusion points reveal content gaps
When viewers keep asking about the same step, your earlier video was probably unclear, and a follow-up or a pinned explanation fixes it for everyone. Fixing the gap once is better than answering the same question in comments forever.
Planning a whole month is easier
With several ideas ranked by how often they were requested, you can fill the calendar for the next four weeks in one sitting. A full calendar removes the Sunday-night stress of deciding what to film.
Audience loyalty grows
Viewers who see their requests turned into videos feel heard, which tends to raise comments, subscriptions and the likelihood that they share your channel. Subscribers who feel heard also tend to recommend the channel to friends.

How it works

What happens, step by step

Once a month, ClickRuntime gathers recent comments from across your YouTube channel.
AI reads them and picks out the five themes viewers raise most.
It then suggests five video ideas that would answer those themes.
You get the themes and ideas in one email.

Before it runs live

Connect YouTube

What you get

RunsMonthly

Turn viewer comments into video ideastoday, 9:00Succeeded

Email · Comment themes and video ideasThemes: setup on Windows, pricing tiers, team permissions Ideas: "Setting up on Windows in 10 minutes", "Which plan do you actually need?"

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 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.

comment_themes_and_video_ideas.pyexample

from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, ai, notify

CHANNEL_ID = "UCxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    comments, page = [], None
    for _ in range(5):
        res = http.get("https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/commentThreads", params={
            "key": credentials.secret("YOUTUBE_API_KEY"), "part": "snippet", "allThreadsRelatedToChannelId": CHANNEL_ID,
            "order": "time", "maxResults": 100, "pageToken": page,
        }).json()
        comments += [t["snippet"]["topLevelComment"]["snippet"]["textOriginal"][:200] for t in res["items"]]
        page = res.get("nextPageToken")
        if not page:
            break
    ideas = ai.generate("\n".join(comments), system="List the 5 themes viewers raise most, then 5 video ideas that answer them.", max_output_tokens=600).text
    notify.email_me("Comment themes and video ideas", ideas)
    return {"comments": len(comments)}

FAQ

Common questions

Does it read comments on every video, including old ones?

It uses the channel-wide comment listing, which covers videos across the channel, not only the newest. Older videos with very active comment sections will contribute, so the themes reflect your whole audience and not just last week's upload.

How does it avoid being skewed by spam?

The AI is asked to concentrate on substantive viewer comments, so repeated promotional posts count for little. Heavy spam may still reduce the signal, so keep your YouTube comment moderation settings on to remove the worst of it.

Can I add my own focus, like only tutorials?

Yes. You can tell your AI assistant what kind of ideas you want, for instance beginner tutorials or comparison videos, and the instructions to the AI are changed to match once you approve the update.

What permissions does it need?

youtube.readonly or API key. 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 (monthly). 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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