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Keep a sheet of new videos from channels you follow
A sheet keeps a running list of every new upload from the channels you watch, and Slack gets a daily digest.
- Runs
- Daily
- Apps
- Google Sheets, YouTube
- AI
- Optional
- Access
- YouTube API key; Sheets edit
Send this to your assistant
Create a ClickRuntime automation: every morning, check the channels listed in my Channels sheet for new uploads, add each new video to the Videos tab and post a short digest to #research.
First time? Adding ClickRuntime to your assistant takes about two minutes.
Why use it
Why teams use this automation
A content team keeps an eye on competitors' and partners' YouTube channels. Subscriptions mix work channels with personal ones, and nobody has a shared record of what each channel published and when.
A sheet that logs every new upload, plus a daily digest in Slack, gives the team a shared view of what the channels they care about are putting out.
What you get out of it
A shared watch list
The channel list lives in a sheet anyone can edit, so adding a channel to track takes one row.
A record over time
Every upload is logged with its date, so you can see how often each channel publishes and what topics they cover.
Short daily digest
One Slack message a day lists what is new, instead of notifications scattered across personal accounts.
Optional one-line summaries
With AI turned on, each video gets a short summary so the digest says what it is about, not just its title.
How it works
What happens, step by step
Every morning, ClickRuntime reads the list of channels from your Channels sheet.
It checks each channel's latest uploads and skips videos it has already logged.
New videos are added to the Videos tab with channel, title, date and link.
A short digest of the new videos is posted to your #research Slack channel.
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, 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 = "your-spreadsheet-id"
@on_trigger
def run(event):
sheet = api("sheets", "v4").spreadsheets().values()
channels = [r[0] for r in sheet.get(spreadsheetId=SHEET_ID, range="Channels!A2:A").execute().get("values", []) if r]
seen, rows = set(state.get("seen") or []), []
for ch in yt("channels", part="contentDetails,snippet", id=",".join(channels[:50])):
uploads = ch["contentDetails"]["relatedPlaylists"]["uploads"]
for item in yt("playlistItems", part="snippet", playlistId=uploads, maxResults=5):
s = item["snippet"]
vid = s["resourceId"]["videoId"]
if vid not in seen:
rows.append([s["publishedAt"][:10], ch["snippet"]["title"], s["title"], f"https://youtu.be/{vid}"])
seen.add(vid)
if not rows:
return {"new": 0}
sheet.append(spreadsheetId=SHEET_ID, range="Videos!A:D", valueInputOption="RAW", body={"values": rows}).execute()
notify.slack("New videos today:\n" + "\n".join(f"• {r[1]}: {r[2]} {r[3]}" for r in rows), channel="#research")
state.set("seen", sorted(seen)[-5000:])
return {"new": len(rows)}FAQ
Common questions
How many channels can it follow?
Does it need my YouTube login?
Can it skip Shorts?
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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