Competitor channels → weekly brief
Watching three competitors' channels is a part-time job. Checking what they published costs one credit per channel, and reading only the new videos takes minutes, not hours.
What you get
- What each competitor published since last week
- Topics, product claims and offers mentioned, with quotes
- Patterns across channels: what they are all pushing right now
With an AI assistant
Connect the MCP server to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor, then paste:
For each of these channels: @competitorA, @competitorB, @competitorC, get the latest uploads and keep only videos from the last 7 days. Read each new video's transcript. Write a brief per channel: topics, product claims, offers or prices mentioned (quote them with [m:ss]), and calls to action. End with three patterns you see across all channels.
With the API
Set GYT_API_KEY to a key from the developers page. Each transcript, list page or channel check costs one credit.
1. Check each channel for new uploads (1 credit each)
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $GYT_API_KEY" \ "https://getyoutubetranscript.com/api/v1/channel/latest?channel=@mkbhd"2. Read only the new videos (1 credit each)
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $GYT_API_KEY" \ "https://getyoutubetranscript.com/api/v1/transcript?v=VIDEO_ID"
Limits to know
- The latest-uploads check returns a channel's 15 newest uploads; use /channel/videos for a full back catalogue.
Tools for this workflow
Questions
What does a weekly run cost?
One credit per channel check plus one per new video read. Three channels checked weekly (3 credits) posting twice a week (about 6 more) is roughly nine credits.
Can it run automatically?
Yes: schedule the same calls in n8n, Zapier or a cron job and send the brief to Slack or email.
More workflows
EducationYouTube playlist → study notesA 20-lecture course is ten hours of video and about an hour of reading. Get the reading.EducationLectures → flashcards & quizzesTesting yourself beats rewatching. Build the questions from the transcript.DevelopersPlaylist → RAG corpusIndex what a channel said, chunked on caption timings, with links that open at the right second.ContentYouTube video → blog postA post built from what was said, not a generic article on the same topic.ContentOne video → a week of postsThe best hooks are lines someone already said out loud.AutomationNew uploads → summarized alertsA free check for new videos, a credit only when there is something new.
