youtube-idea-finder

youtube-idea-finder is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ErickRamirezAU/claude-skills. It costs 179 tokens per session (2,023 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A YouTube research tool that finds videos getting unusually many views compared with the number of subscribers on their channel.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find underrated or breakout videos for a given topic or niche, using YouTube data such as views and subscribers.
Why use it?
It helps uncover topic ideas that succeeded beyond a creator’s usual audience instead of relying only on the biggest channels.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Use it to find underrated or breakout videos for a given topic or niche, using YouTube data such as views and subscribers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/erickramirezau/claude-skills/youtube-idea-finder
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add ErickRamirezAU/claude-skills --skill youtube-idea-finder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ErickRamirezAU/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 179 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,023 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00179 $0.02023
Opus 5 $0.00089 $0.01012
Sonnet 5 $0.00036 $0.00405
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00202

Measured 11d ago against content hash 07dba16ceac9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

youtube-idea-finder scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/youtube_idea_finder.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/youtube-idea-finder/SKILL.md · 180 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 180 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

YouTube Idea Finder

Idea and name credit: inspired by Shane Hummus's YouTube videos on channel strategy and finding proven video ideas — this skill automates that "find videos overperforming their channel size" research.

Find videos on a given topic where the view count is large relative to the channel's subscriber count — a signal that a small or unknown creator produced something that broke out beyond their usual audience. This uses the YouTube Data API v3 (search.list, videos.list, channels.list) via a bundled script, so results are exact numbers straight from the API rather than scraped or estimated.

Inputs

The only thing the user is required to give you is the search term (the topic/niche). Everything else has a sensible default, and you should state the defaults you're using up front so the user can redirect you if they actually wanted something different:

Parameter Default Notes
Minimum views 100,000 The "overperformance" floor
Maximum subscribers 100,000 Keeps results to small/mid channels
Minimum views : subscribers ratio 5 : 1 The core "punching above their weight" signal
Number of candidates to find 5 Stop once you hit this many
Max search pages 5 Quota safety cap — see Quota below

If the user gives you different numbers, use theirs instead. If the script exhausts search results or hits the search-page cap before reaching the requested count, report however many qualifying videos it actually found — don't re-run with ever-looser queries trying to force a full set.

Getting an API key

If the user doesn't already have YOUTUBE_API_KEY set (see Tooling below), walk them through this rather than assuming they know it:

  1. Go to the Google Cloud Console and create a project (or pick an existing one).
  2. Enable the YouTube Data API v3 for that project.
  3. Go to APIs & Services → Credentials → Create Credentials → API key.
  4. Optionally restrict the key to the YouTube Data API v3 (recommended, but not required for this to work).

Read the full file on GitHub · 180 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 180 lines · 179 tokens per session scan A 07dba16ceac9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

youtube-idea-finder is a skill published in the GitHub repository ErickRamirezAU/claude-skills (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 179 tokens to every session and 2,023 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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