Find, score, and save the best YouTube videos automatically

Searches YouTube for videos matching your topic, ranks them by quality, and logs the best ones to Google Sheets.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per each video found.

Pattern: Sequence (1) ยท Multiple Instances without Synchronization (12)

flowchart TD trig(("user specifies search topics")):::human s0["search youtube by topic"]:::svc s1[["filter and score videos"]]:::mi s2["rank top videos"]:::task s3[("log results to sheet")]:::store s4["download selected videos"]:::task trig --> s0 s0 -->|"one per each video found"| s1 s1 --> s2 s2 --> s3 s3 --> s4 out[/"ranked video list saved"/]:::out pay{{"saves time hunting for quality videos"}}:::pay s4 --> out out --> pay classDef task fill:#e7f6fe,stroke:#34b8f0,color:#2c2a29 classDef svc fill:#f6f8fa,stroke:#7c8795,color:#2c2a29 classDef mi fill:#e7f6fe,stroke:#0079a8,color:#2c2a29,stroke-width:2px classDef human fill:#fff,stroke:#0079a8,color:#0079a8 classDef store fill:#f6f8fa,stroke:#0079a8,color:#2c2a29 classDef trig fill:#00a4eb,stroke:#0079a8,color:#fff,font-weight:bold classDef trigtime fill:#00a4eb,stroke:#0079a8,color:#fff,font-weight:bold classDef trigdata fill:#8ad4f5,stroke:#0079a8,color:#06314c,font-weight:bold classDef gate fill:#fff,stroke:#e8a23d,color:#6b4708,font-weight:bold classDef out fill:#1f9d6b,stroke:#167a53,color:#fff,font-weight:bold classDef pay fill:#06314c,stroke:#021f33,color:#fff
A stepAn outside serviceRuns once per itemA personA record or sheetResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
Spreadsheet & Database OpsEducation & Training
Connects
YouTubeGoogle SheetsFetchMedia.io

The problem it solves

Manually searching YouTube for good educational or research videos means wading through clickbait, outdated uploads, and low-quality content. Keeping track of the ones worth using in a spreadsheet is its own chore on top of that.

Who it fits

Content curators, educators, and researchers who need a steady supply of quality videos on a topic.

How it works

  1. The system searches YouTube using your chosen topics
  2. It filters out videos that don't meet your quality bar
  3. Remaining videos are scored and ranked by relevance
  4. The best results are logged into Google Sheets
  5. Selected videos can be downloaded automatically for archiving
What you get

Top videos curated and ranked for your topic

You get a curated list of the best videos on your chosen topics, ranked and logged for you.

What you get

A ranked list of top-quality YouTube videos in Google Sheets, with downloads available.

What you need

A YouTube Data API key, a Google Sheets account, and a FetchMedia.io account.

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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