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Hourly

Share new YouTube videos with a short summary

When a channel you follow uploads, your server gets the link and a three-line summary.

Runs
Hourly
Apps
Discord
AI
Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
Access
Send Messages

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every hour, check these YouTube channels for new videos and post each one to #videos on my Discord with a 3-line summary from its description.

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

Members of a server about a game, a programming language or a hobby follow a dozen YouTube channels, and a new upload gets mentioned hours later, if at all. Someone pastes a link without saying what it is, so people click, watch the first minute and leave. The community misses releases that matter, such as a patch-notes video, because no one was online when it went up.

Every hour the automation reads each channel's RSS feed, skips video IDs it has already seen, and ClickRuntime's built-in AI drafts a short summary from the title and description. It then posts the link and the summary in the Discord channel, so members can decide whether the video is worth their time.

It suits fan communities, learning groups and any server built around a handful of creators.

What you get out of it

  • New videos noticed within the hour

    Hourly checks mean a release is in the channel soon after it goes live. Discussion starts while the video is still fresh, and members who would have heard about it a day later join the first conversation instead of the last.

  • Members can judge before clicking

    A two-line summary tells people whether a video is a ten-minute tutorial or a long livestream replay. They watch what suits them, instead of clicking through everything and leaving after a minute because it was not what they expected.

  • No double posting

    Tracking seen video IDs prevents the same upload from appearing twice, even if a feed returns old items again. A channel that repeats itself soon gets ignored, and this keeps the feed trustworthy for the people reading it.

  • Creators you choose

    You list the channels that matter to your community, so the feed stays relevant. Adding a new creator or dropping one who has stopped posting is a one-line request to your AI assistant rather than a project.

  • No one has to play curator

    The member who posted every video by hand is no longer on duty, and nothing is missed when they are away. The server keeps its reputation as the place where you hear about new releases first.

How it works

What happens, step by step

  1. Every hour, ClickRuntime checks the YouTube channels you follow for new videos.

  2. It skips videos it has already shared.

  3. AI reads each new video's title and description and writes a one-line summary.

  4. The title, summary and link are posted to your Discord channel.

Before it runs live

  • Connect Discord

What you get

RunsHourly
Share new YouTube videos with a short summarytoday, 9:00Succeeded
Discord · #videos**Shipping faster with feature flags** Why flags beat long-lived branches, with a live demo. youtu.be/abc123

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

  • Act only on the items that match your own rules, and skip the rest
  • 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 Discord 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_with_ai_summaries.pyexample
import re
from clickruntime import on_trigger, http, credentials, ai, state, report_fetched

VIDEOS_CHANNEL = "VIDEOS_CHANNEL_ID"
YT_CHANNELS = ["UC_x5XG1OV2P6uZZ5FSM9Ttw"]

def discord(method, path, **kw):
    r = http.request(method, f"https://discord.com/api/v10{path}",
                     headers={"Authorization": f"Bot {credentials.secret('DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN')}"}, **kw)
    r.raise_for_status()
    return r.json() if r.content else None

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    seen = set(state.get("seen") or [])
    new = []
    for cid in YT_CHANNELS:
        feed = http.get("https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml", params={"channel_id": cid}).text
        for vid, title, desc in re.findall(
                r"<yt:videoId>(.*?)</yt:videoId>.*?<title>(.*?)</title>.*?<media:description>(.*?)</media:description>", feed, re.S):
            if vid not in seen:
                new.append((vid, title, desc))
    report_fetched(len(new))
    if not new:
        return {"new": 0}
    for vid, title, desc in new:
        summary = ai.generate(f"Summarise in 3 short lines:\n{title}\n{desc[:2000]}", max_output_tokens=120).text
        discord("POST", f"/channels/{VIDEOS_CHANNEL}/messages",
                json={"content": f"**{title}**\n{summary}\nhttps://youtu.be/{vid}"})
        seen.add(vid)
    state.set("seen", list(seen)[-500:])
    return {"new": len(new)}

FAQ

Common questions

How do I find a YouTube channel's RSS feed?
Every YouTube channel has a feed at an address built from its channel ID. Give your AI assistant the channel link or ID and it can build the feed address for you, so you do not need to dig through page source or look it up.
Is the summary based on the video itself?
No. It is based on the title and description that YouTube publishes in the feed, not the spoken content of the video. If a creator writes a thin description, the summary will be short and general, because there is little to work from.
Does it post Shorts and livestreams too?
Anything that appears in the channel's feed can be posted, which usually includes Shorts and scheduled streams. If you only want long videos, tell your AI assistant to filter by title or by words in the description so shorter clips are skipped.
What permissions does it need?
Send Messages. 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 checks. Checks that find nothing new 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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