I was wondering if there’s a way to monitor or track YouTube video links for new comments. I’m hoping to receive a Slack notification whenever a new comment is published in the comments section. Is there a solution or method to achieve this?
Yet… this is limited if you want to monitor all the youtube videos on your channel, and keep it updated with new videos you upload.
This is more tricky since the “when website data changes” trigger can’t be inputted with dynamic data, like a list of the youtube videos on your channel.
This could be a great Share an idea to make. It’s something we can look into (@manvel ).
Option 2:
I can think of a workarround to keep the data updated by doing 3 automations.
Scrapping all your youtube channel videos (we have a scraper for this) and saviing into google sheets.
You can do this recurrently using “When scheduled event ocurrs” trigger, and using the Update google sheet rows action. How to use Update Google Sheet rows
Making a “when scheduled event” trigger autobook, that every day does the followin actions:
Get table from Google Sheets
Get the youtube video links
Scrape them in the background to get their comments
Use update google sheets rows to save the comments on a different tab or spreadsheet.
Use an autobook that monitors new rows on the comments list, and when it does, it’ll send a slack message
So basically:
When google sheet rows is added to the “Comments” tab or spreadsheet
Send a custom slack message
Let me know how it goes and it you need further clarification.