Before you start
- Your Aha Studio accountPlaylist Builder is for members: Channel Spy and Search YouTube as often as your YouTube keys allow, and 100 AI titles a month. Unlimited with your own AI key after your first 14 days. The page shows an Example made of sample data for visitors.
- A YouTube API key of your ownFree from Google Cloud: switch on the YouTube Data API v3 in a project, make an API key, and add it in Account, Keys and connections (Search data). Each project gets 10,000 free units a day; add a key from each of several projects for more (the quota belongs to the project, so two keys from one project share it). The same keys run Expired Domain Hunter and SocialWatchr.
Nothing is posted to YouTube from Aha Studio, and nothing is invented: the numbers are YouTube’s own, and the AI writes only from the videos’ titles and the search you give it.
PART 01
Spy on a channel
0 of 5 done- Open Playlist BuilderAt playlistbuilder.ahastudio.net, or press Start something new on your account page and choose Playlist Builder.
- Paste the channelYouTube channel: its address (https://www.youtube.com/@name), its @handle, its /channel/UC... address, an old /c/ or /user/ address, or the address of any of its videos.
- Press List the videosIts newest 500 public videos are listed, for about 21 units of your free daily quota. Load more adds the next 500, up to 5,000 a channel. Unlisted, private and live videos are left out.
- Sort and filterSort: Most views, Most views a day, Biggest outliers, Most engagement, Most likes, Most comments, Newest, Oldest. Filter by Videos (long or Shorts), Uploaded, Outliers, Min views and Title has.
- Pick and addTick the videos you want (or Tick all shown), then press Add to the playlist. Download CSV keeps every row shown, with its numbers.
PART 02
What the numbers mean
Views a dayThe views over the days since it was published: a new video doing well shows here before it has the most views.
EngagementLikes and comments for every 1,000 views.
OutlierIts views over the channel’s median: 3x means three times the channel’s usual video. Shorts are compared with Shorts and long videos with long videos, because the two draw very different numbers. A video of 3 minutes or less counts as a Short (YouTube’s API gives only the length).
UnitsYouTube counts each request against your key’s free 10,000 a day: 1 to find the channel, 1 for every 50 videos listed and 1 for every 50 videos’ numbers. A search costs 100. An address that matches no @handle or old username costs one search to find the channel, and the page says so.
PART 03
Search YouTube
0 of 3 done- Open Search YouTubeType what people search for, for example "sourdough for beginners".
- Choose the order and filtersOrder: Most relevant, Most viewed, Newest, Highest rated. Length: Any length, Under 4 minutes, 4 to 20 minutes, Over 20 minutes. Uploaded: how recent. Pages of 50: up to 4, 100 units each.
- Press Search YouTubeThe videos come with their numbers and channel. Sort, filter, tick and Add to the playlist as in Channel Spy (there is no outlier score: the videos are from many channels).
PART 04
Build the playlist
0 of 4 done- Open the Playlist tabThe videos you added, in the order they play (up to 200). Up, Down and Take out change it.
- Write it with AI (optional)Type Find it for, the search people type, then press Write it with AI: a title, a description and tags from the videos’ titles. Or type your own. The title can be up to 150 characters, YouTube’s limit.
- Press Save the playlistIt is kept in Your work, Playlists, to open and change later.
- Put it on YouTubePress Open on YouTube: YouTube opens the videos as a playlist. Signed in to your channel, save it there to keep it, then paste in the title and the description (Copy title, Copy description). YouTube opens at most 50 videos a link, so a longer playlist opens in parts. Copy all as text gives the title, description, tags and every video with its link.
PART 05
Your limits
AI titles a month100a title, description and tags each
Videos a page500in Channel Spy, up to 5,000 a channel
Videos a playlist200opened 50 at a time on YouTube
YouTube quota10,000free units a day for each Google Cloud project
PART 06
If something looks wrong
Still stuck? Email support@anthonyhayes.me or open the help desk.
Ready to build?Paste a channel and press *List the videos*, or open *Search YouTube*.Open Playlist Builder