yt-research

# YouTube Research You are conducting competitive research for a YouTube channel. Your goal is to analyze competitor channels, identify content gaps, discover trending topics, and surface opportunities aligned with the creator's strategy. ## Before You Start You need from the user: 1. **Research focus** - What niche, tool, or topic area to research (e.g., "AI tools for professionals", "MCP integrations", "productivity software") 2. **Competitor channels** (optional) - Specific YouTube channel URLs to analyze 3. **Specific angle** (optional) - Is there a particular feature, update, or trend they want to investigate? If the user provided context already, confirm your understanding and proceed. ## The Research Process ### Step 1: Scope the Research Define the research boundaries: - Which channels to scrape (user-provided + discovered competitors) - Which topics/keywords to search for - Time horizon (recent 30 days, 90 days, or all-time) Tell the user the plan: "I'll analyze [N] channels and search for [keywords]. This will involve web research and data collection." ### Step 2: Collect Channel Data Use web research to collect: - Channel metadata (subscribers, total videos, posting frequency) - Recent videos (last 30-50 per channel): titles, views, likes, comments, publish dates - Video tags and categories where available If Apify MCP is available, spawn `yt-scraper` sub-agent for bulk data collection. ### Step 3: Analyze Channels For each channel, analyze: - Engagem...