Keep YouTube video details up to date in Google Sheets automatically

Add a YouTube link to your spreadsheet and it fills in the title, channel, thumbnail, upload date, and view count automatically.

How the work actually flows

A straight line.

Pattern: Sequence (1)

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Starts itA stepAn outside serviceA record or sheetResultPayoff
Build size
Standard

A mid-size build with several tools working together.

Business functions
Spreadsheet & Database Ops
Connects
Google SheetsYouTube

The problem it solves

Tracking video performance means opening each YouTube link, copying the title and view count, and pasting them into your tracker by hand. Doing this for a growing list of videos gets tedious fast, and the numbers go stale the moment you stop checking.

Who it fits

YouTube creators, content researchers, and teams tracking video performance in a spreadsheet.

How it works

  1. You enter or update a YouTube video link in your spreadsheet
  2. The system looks up the video on YouTube
  3. It pulls the channel name, title, thumbnail, upload date, and view count
  4. Dates and view counts are formatted so they're easy to read
  5. The same row in your spreadsheet is updated with the fresh data
What you get

Video details that fill in without lookups

Every YouTube link you add to your spreadsheet automatically fills in with the title, channel, thumbnail, and view count.

What you get

An up-to-date spreadsheet row with current video details for every link you track.

What you need

A Google Sheets account and access to the YouTube Data API.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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