Anyone know a tool like this?

[pixelander]

I’m trying to find a tool that can help me find viral videos recently created by smaller channels. For example a channel with 40 subs that got 60k views 3 days ago. The closest thing I’ve came to this is vidIQ but it doesn’t capture everything , I know this because I’ve seen some viral videos on the YouTube homepage recently created by smaller channels that wouldn’t show up on vidIQs most viewed tool. So does anyone know a tool that captures all of the data of viral videos being recently created by smaller YouTube channels?

 

[TechEinstien]

I don't think such a tool exist.

 

[pixelander]

I don't think such a tool exist.

There has to be something

 

[Mira568]

are you sure about this tool?

 

[mindeswx]

Would be not too hard to create it, just need to scrape random letters like 'a' , 'b' etc. filter by 'uploaded today', and sort by view count descending, you would get something like this -

Then you would need to check every channels subscribers count, At first it would be slower, but as you would build out the database of the most popular channels it would be really quick.

Was just going through these results and found this channel ( I guess that's what you are looking for lol)
It's a small channel that was getting 1-2k~ views per video, but like 20 last videos are complete click baits with fucked up titles, and they getting 200k views...

 

[yuukojp]

It'd be hard to achieve such a thing for the "All YouTube" universe, you can make a decent spider going through recommended videos a few times (YouTube used to have an API for related videos, they recently killed it) in your niche and aggregating by low sub count. YouTube API is quite rate limited, it'd be hard to get a good sample indexed.

 

[WebsiteDesignAgency]

Seems hard to achieve without an API. Maybe you can hire a Virtual assistant to do it for you.

 

[Danica87]

is this even exists?

 

[nonfictiondude]

I guess you can do it using the youtube api ?
like fetching a list trending videos and for each of them you check if the account is small or not

 

[yuukojp]

I guess you can do it using the youtube api ?
like fetching a list trending videos and for each of them you check if the account is small or not

You can roughly do it, but you'd be better off having a universe of channels to track. You can query this API for 100 quota units, you get 10,000 / day by default, 50 max videos / page so you can theoretically crawl 5000 videos / day.

 

[pixelander]

You can roughly do it, but you'd be better off having a universe of channels to track. You can query this API for 100 quota units, you get 10,000 / day by default, 50 max videos / page so you can theoretically crawl 5000 videos / day.

How would it search for smaller channels with viral vids?

 

[mindeswx]

How would it search for smaller channels with viral vids?

It wouldn't. You get the 5K videos, then you have to check how many subscribers each channel owner has.

 

[tubeboost]

I think the best solution is to hire a coder to develop a program to search for new videos and check its channels. It doesn't look so hard.

 

[jamie3000]

OP I'm always looking for new things to code. Send me a PM with exactly what you want and I'll see if its feasible through the API

 

[pixelander]

OP I'm always looking for new things to code. Send me a PM with exactly what you want and I'll see if its feasible through the API

For sure I just PM’ed you

I guess you can do it using the youtube api ?
like fetching a list trending videos and for each of them you check if the account is small or not

This seems complicated tho , i never used the YouTube api

 

[aurim]

Youtube API has its limits so your results will be few. If going for a custom tool with a developer, then it needs to handle many requests (results) and able to defeat the anti-bot measures of YT...

The idea is good but the implementation isn't easy because of the above.

 

[pixelander]

Bump any other ideas?

 

[MGaLL]

You obviously need to have a bot and list of keywords.

Figure out your keyword list, add to bot.

Bot actions:

Enter keyword

Filter last 24 hours

Filter last week in another run if you want

Tell bot what numbers to scrape

Limit search results to read 50-100 videos

Channel subs less than 1000 example

Video views more than 10000 example

Bot won't open videos, just read info from search page

Should be fine if your keyword list is not huge, try it.

 

[pixelander]

You obviously need to have a bot and list of keywords.

Figure out your keyword list, add to bot.

Bot actions:

Enter keyword

Filter last 24 hours

Filter last week in another run if you want

Tell bot what numbers to scrape

Limit search results to read 50-100 videos

Channel subs less than 1000 example

Video views more than 10000 example

Bot won't open videos, just read info from search page

Should be fine if your keyword list is not huge, try it.

Will YouTube actually listen to these keywords and show these results though?

 

[Growerse]

While vidIQ is helpful, it might not capture all the data you're looking for. You might want to explore a combination of tools like TubeBuddy and Google Alerts.

TubeBuddy offers features to track trending videos, and Google Alerts can notify you about newly popular content from smaller channels.

This mix of tools and alerts should enhance your ability to discover those viral gems created by smaller YouTube channels.

Happy hunting for those awesome videos!