Weekly

Get your top videos by plays each week

Each Monday you get plays per video and the change since last week.

Runs: Weekly
Apps: Vimeo
AI: Not needed
Access: private

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every Monday at 8:00, email me my 10 most played Vimeo videos with their plays and the change since last Monday.

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

Anyone using Vimeo to host product demos or training videos eventually wants to know which ones are being watched. The analytics sit in Vimeo's dashboard, and total plays since upload say little about this week. An old tutorial with 40,000 lifetime plays can dwarf a new launch video that is trending, so the useful question, what got attention lately, rarely gets asked.

Weekly, the automation fetches your videos with their play counts, compares each count with the value it stored the week before, and emails you the ten videos that gained the most plays. It then stores the new totals, so the next report measures the following week only.

It suits content marketers, educators and founders who publish regularly and want a quick signal for what to make more of.

What you get out of it

See this week's winners, not all-time ones
Because it reports the change since last week, a fresh video with 800 new plays outranks an old one with a huge total but little recent activity, which is the comparison that actually informs what to publish next.
Decide what to make next
When three tutorials on the same topic top the list, that is evidence for a series. The email gives a content planner real viewing data in place of guesswork when the next quarter's editorial calendar is drawn up.
Spot a link that took off
A sudden jump on one video often means someone shared it, perhaps a newsletter or a partner. Knowing within a week lets you thank them, follow up with the audience or promote the same video elsewhere.
Retire or refresh weak videos
Videos that never reach the top ten for months are candidates for rework or removal, which keeps your library from filling with unwatched material and your channel page from feeling cluttered to a new visitor.
Stakeholders get a ready summary
Forward the email to a manager or client as the weekly video update without opening Vimeo or building a spreadsheet, so reporting on video performance takes no time out of your week at all.

How it works

What happens, step by step

Every Monday, ClickRuntime looks up your 10 most played Vimeo videos.
It compares each video's play count with last week's figure.
You get an email listing each video with its total plays and how many it gained this week.

Before it runs live

Connect Vimeo

What you get

RunsWeekly

Get your top videos by plays each weektoday, 9:00Succeeded

Email · Top 10 Vimeo videosAcme 2027 Product Tour: 8,412 plays (+640) Northwind Customer Story: 3,120 plays (+85)

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
Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
Combine it with other Vimeo 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.

weekly_views_report.pyexample

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

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    videos = http.get("https://api.vimeo.com/me/videos",
                      headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {credentials.secret('VIMEO_TOKEN')}"},
                      params={"sort": "plays", "direction": "desc", "per_page": 10,
                              "fields": "uri,name,stats.plays"}).json()["data"]
    last = state.get("plays") or {}
    lines = []
    for v in videos:
        plays = v["stats"]["plays"] or 0
        lines.append(f"{v['name']}: {plays:,} plays ({plays - last.get(v['uri'], plays):+,})")
    notify.email_me("Your top 10 Vimeo videos", "\n".join(lines))
    state.set("plays", {**last, **{v["uri"]: v["stats"]["plays"] or 0 for v in videos}})
    return {"videos": len(videos)}

FAQ

Common questions

Does it count plays from embedded videos on other sites?

It uses the play count Vimeo reports for each video, which generally includes plays wherever the video is embedded. It is the same number you see in Vimeo's own stats, not a separate tally calculated by the automation.

What happens in the first week, before there is a stored count?

The first run has nothing to compare with, so it saves the current totals as a baseline. From the second week onward the email shows genuine weekly gains rather than lifetime totals, so expect the first report to be less useful.

Can I get the top 20 or a smaller list?

Yes. Ten is the default length, and the number is simple to change. You can ask your AI assistant for five, twenty, or a list limited to videos in a particular folder, and approve the change before it applies.

What permissions does it need?

private. Nothing else in your accounts is used.

Does it need AI?

No. It runs without AI, so it doesn't use your plan's AI allowance.

How many runs does it use?

One run each time it runs (weekly). 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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