Collects as they arrive, acts daily
Upload queued videos to YouTube on a schedule
Video links you send are uploaded one at a time with an AI title and description, and added to your playlist.
- Runs
- Collects as they arrive, acts daily
- Apps
- YouTube
- AI
- Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
- Access
- OAuth youtube.upload, youtube (write)
Send this to your assistant
Create a ClickRuntime automation: give me a link I can send video file URLs to; every 12 hours upload the next one to my channel with an AI-written title and description, add it to my 'Tutorials' playlist and email me the link.
First time? Adding ClickRuntime to your assistant takes about two minutes.
Why use it
Why teams use this automation
A small studio edits client videos in batches. On Friday there are eight finished files sitting in Google Drive, and publishing all eight at once buries the earlier ones in subscriber feeds. So someone has to remember to upload one file each morning, type a title, paste a description, pick the right playlist and send the client the link. That chore gets skipped on busy days, and the cadence collapses.
Whenever you drop in a video link, it goes into a queue. Each day, the next link is taken from the queue, the file is downloaded and sent to YouTube with a resumable upload, and a title and description are written for it by the built-in AI. The finished video is added to a playlist and you get an email with the live link.
Agencies, course creators and anyone batch-producing content get the most from it.
What you get out of it
A steady posting rhythm
One video per day, drawn from the queue, keeps your channel active for weeks after a single editing session. Subscribers get a predictable cadence rather than a burst followed by silence. Viewers who watch daily see a channel that feels dependable, which is what turns a casual viewer into a subscriber.
Batch work happens only once
Editing eight videos on Friday no longer means eight separate upload sessions. You drop the links, close the laptop and the uploads happen on the schedule without anyone sitting in YouTube Studio.
Metadata is never left blank
Every upload leaves with a title and description produced by AI from what you supplied. Videos do not go live as Untitled or with an empty description that hurts search visibility. Search engines and the YouTube algorithm both reward complete titles and descriptions.
Large files survive flaky connections
A resumable upload picks up where it stopped if the transfer is interrupted. A 4 GB file that fails at 90 percent does not force the whole upload to start over. Interrupted transfers are common on office Wi-Fi.
The link reaches the right person
The email with the published URL goes out the moment each video is added to its playlist. Clients and teammates get a working link instead of a message saying it should be up soon.
Less pressure on editors
Editors can hand over finished files whenever they are done, instead of racing to publish the same day. Because the AI drafts the wording from the details you gave, you only need to review it later if you care about the exact phrasing of a title.
How it works
What happens, step by step
Whenever you send ClickRuntime a link to a video file, it adds it to a queue.
Once a day it takes the next video from the queue, and AI writes a YouTube title and a three-sentence description for it.
The video is uploaded to your YouTube channel with that title and description, and added to your playlist.
You get an email with the new video's link and how many are left in the queue.
Before it runs live
- Connect YouTube
- Paste your automation's link into the other app's webhook settings
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
- 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 YouTube steps into one automation
Under the hood
The code that runs this automation
from clickruntime import on_event, on_trigger, credentials, http, state, ai, notify
YT = "https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3"
PLAYLIST_ID = "PLxxxxxxxx"
@on_event
def queue(event):
q = state.get("queue") or []
q.append({"url": event.json["url"], "topic": event.json.get("topic", "")})
state.set("queue", q)
return {"queued": len(q)}
@on_trigger
def upload_next(event):
q = state.get("queue") or []
if not q:
return {"summary": "Queue empty"}
item = q.pop(0)
meta = ai.generate(f"Topic: {item['topic']}\nFile: {item['url']}", system="Write a YouTube title (max 80 chars) and a 3-sentence description.",
json_schema={"type": "object", "properties": {"title": {"type": "string"}, "description": {"type": "string"}}}, max_output_tokens=300).json
h = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {credentials.connection('google', 'work')}"}
session = http.post("https://www.googleapis.com/upload/youtube/v3/videos", headers=h,
params={"uploadType": "resumable", "part": "snippet,status"},
json={"snippet": meta, "status": {"privacyStatus": "private"}})
video = http.put(session.headers["Location"], headers=h, data=http.get(item["url"], timeout=300).content, timeout=600).json()
http.post(f"{YT}/playlistItems", headers=h, params={"part": "snippet"},
json={"snippet": {"playlistId": PLAYLIST_ID, "resourceId": {"kind": "youtube#video", "videoId": video["id"]}}})
state.set("queue", q)
notify.email_me(f"Uploaded: {meta['title']}", f"https://youtu.be/{video['id']}\n{len(q)} left in the queue.")
return {"video": video["id"], "left": len(q)}FAQ
Common questions
What kinds of video links work?
Does the video publish publicly right away?
What if I add five links in one day?
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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