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Get new videos from your favourite YouTube channels with AI summaries

New videos from the channels you follow arrive on Telegram and by email, each with a short summary so you know which to watch.

Runs
Hourly
Apps
Gmail, Telegram
AI
Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
Access
Telegram bot token; Gmail gmail.send

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Create a ClickRuntime automation: every hour, check my favourite YouTube channels for new videos and send each one with an AI summary to my Telegram and email.

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

First time? Adding ClickRuntime to your assistant takes about two minutes.

Why use it

Why teams use this automation

A marketing lead follows a handful of YouTube channels on ads, analytics and her industry. The home feed buries new uploads under recommendations, and she finds out about the useful ones a week late from a colleague.

Getting each new upload from those channels, with a summary of what it covers, lets her decide in seconds whether to watch now, later or not at all. The feed works for her rather than for the recommendation system.

What you get out of it

  • Only the channels you chose

    Videos arrive from your list, not from what the platform wants to promote. Nothing gets lost in the home feed.

  • Decide before you click

    A short summary tells you what a video covers. You can skip the ones that are not relevant without watching the first few minutes.

  • Where you already look

    Telegram for a quick glance on your phone, email for a record you can search. Both arrive at once.

  • Keep up with your field

    Talks, product updates and tutorials reach you the hour they are published, which matters when news moves fast.

How it works

What happens, step by step

  1. Every hour, ClickRuntime checks the YouTube channels you chose for new uploads.

  2. It skips any video it has already sent you.

  3. AI writes a two-sentence summary of each new video from its title and description.

  4. Each video link and summary is sent to your Telegram and to your email.

Before it runs live

  • Connect Google through your own Google app (a one-time, 10-minute setup), so it works with your own Gmail
  • Connect Telegram

What you get

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Get new videos from your favourite YouTube channels with AI summariestoday, 9:00Succeeded
Telegram · VideosAcme Analytics: Setting up conversion tracking in 10 minutes. A walkthrough of tagging checkout events and checking them in reports.

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 Gmail and Telegram 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.
new_youtube_videos_from_favourite_channels.pyexample
import base64
from email.message import EmailMessage
import feedparser
from google.oauth2.credentials import Credentials
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, ai, state, report_fetched

CHANNELS, CHAT_ID = ["UCxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"], "your-telegram-chat-id"

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    seen = set(state.get("seen") or [])
    new = [e for c in CHANNELS for e in feedparser.parse(http.get(f"https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id={c}").text).entries
           if e.link not in seen]
    report_fetched(len(new))
    if not new:
        return {"sent": 0}
    gmail = build("gmail", "v1", credentials=Credentials(credentials.connection("google", "work")), cache_discovery=False)
    token = credentials.secret("TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN")
    for e in new:
        summary = ai.generate(f"Summarise this video in two sentences:\n{e.title}\n{e.get('summary', '')}", max_output_tokens=150).text
        text = f"{e.author}: {e.title}\n{summary}\n{e.link}"
        http.post(f"https://api.telegram.org/bot{token}/sendMessage", json={"chat_id": CHAT_ID, "text": text})
        msg = EmailMessage()
        msg["To"], msg["Subject"] = "me", f"New video: {e.title}"
        msg.set_content(text)
        gmail.users().messages().send(userId="me", body={"raw": base64.urlsafe_b64encode(msg.as_bytes()).decode()}).execute()
        seen.add(e.link)
    state.set("seen", list(seen)[-500:])
    return {"sent": len(new)}

FAQ

Common questions

How do I add a channel?
You give the channel's address or ID when setting it up, and you can add or remove channels at any time.
What is the summary based on?
The video's title and description from the channel. It works best for channels that write clear descriptions.
Will a video be sent twice?
No. Each video is remembered once sent, so later checks only pick up new uploads.
What permissions does it need?
Telegram bot token; Gmail gmail.send. 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 (hourly). 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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