Track your top-performing YouTube videos in Google Sheets

Pulls the most-viewed videos from a list of YouTube channels and logs them into Google Sheets.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per each youtube channel.

Pattern: Multiple Instances with a priori Design-Time Knowledge (13)

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Runs once per itemA personA record or sheetResultPayoff
Build size
Standard

A mid-size build with several tools working together.

Business functions
Spreadsheet & Database Ops
Connects
YouTubeGoogle Sheets

The problem it solves

You want to track which videos are performing best across a list of YouTube channels, whether it's competitors or your own portfolio, but checking each channel and copying view counts by hand is slow and quickly falls out of date.

Who it fits

Content strategists, marketers, or agencies tracking video performance across multiple YouTube channels.

How it works

  1. You run the workflow with a list of YouTube channel IDs in a sheet
  2. The system requests each channel's most-viewed videos from the YouTube API
  3. Titles, links, and view data are pulled for each video
  4. Results are appended to your output Google Sheet
What you get

Top videos ranked across your channels

You get a running spreadsheet showing your best-performing videos across every YouTube channel you track.

What you get

A Google Sheet listing each channel's top videos with title, link, and view count.

What you need

A Google Sheets account and a YouTube Data API key.

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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