How-to · 3 steps
How to research YouTube
with Monid.
Give this to your agent
$set up https://monid.ai/SKILL.md, then digest this week's youtube videos about <topic> with citations
and let it take it from there.
#JobWhat it readCost
1Search20 of 122,820 results, 946,630 views$0.0015 ✓
2Transcript7,693 words, 1,055 segments$0.0075 ✓
3Comments20 of 272, top one 267 likes$0.0015 ✓
4Channel30 uploads, 10 in 10 days$0.0015 ✓
5Shorts25 shorts, 2,738,225 views$0.0015 ✓
6Trending404 twice, dead upstream$0.00 ✓
7Totalsix billed calls, one full transcript$0.0135 ✓
one video read in full · 272 comments · 30 uploadsagent running$0.0135
Real run, 2026-09-23. Channels are public; commenters are paraphrased.
Step 1
Set up Monid.
One line. It installs the CLI and asks for an API key from app.monid.ai. New accounts start with $1.00.
Say this to your agent
>set up https://monid.ai/SKILL.md
Step 2
Pick what you need. Say it in one sentence.
Click a job. Paste the sentence, fill in the brackets.
This week's videos on a topic
Say this to your agent
>use monid to search youtube for <topic> ordered by this week, and give me title, channel, views and how long ago each was published
What the agent runsdone
tikhub /youtube/web/search_video$0.0015
tikhub /youtube/web_v2/get_general_search · not run$0.0015
mrscraper /youtube/video · not run$0.01
What came backone topic · 2026-09-23
YouTube
Opus 5.5 Is Crazy Good and GPT-6-Sol Launche…
Matt Wolfe · 1 day ago
YouTube
I Tested Opus 5.5 vs. GPT-6 Sol on 10 Real U…
Nate Herk | AI Automation · 20 hours agothe set122,820 estimated results, narrowed to 20 in one call
reach946,630 combined views across those 20
freshness13 of 20 were uploaded within hours of the query
a trapthe rank-1 hit was an upcoming live stream with no views, so sort by views before you read anything
$0.0015per search, 20 videos
Read the whole video
Say this to your agent
>get the transcript of <video url> with apify on monid, then summarise the argument in five bullets with timestamps
What the agent runsdone
apify /starvibe/youtube-video-transcript$0.0075 / result
mrscraper /youtube/video · not run$0.01
What came backone topic · 2026-09-23
the video read
I Tested Opus 5.5 vs. GPT-6 Sol on 10 Real U…
Nate Herk | AI Automationvolume7,693 words in 1,055 timestamped segments from a 34-minute video
unit costabout one thousandth of a cent per word
free extrasthe same call returned 19 caption languages, the like count, the comment count and the subscriber count
a caveatauto-captions mishear brand names, so expect noise on the product words
$0.0075per full transcript
What the comments argue about
Say this to your agent
>pull the comments on <video url> with monid sorted by top, which is by likes, in en-US, and give me the three recurring objections without quoting anyone by name
What the agent runsdone
tikhub /youtube/web_v2/get_video_comments$0.0015
apify /streamers/youtube-comments-scraper · not run$0.00225 / result
mrscraper /youtube/comments · not run$0.01
What came backone topic · 2026-09-23
volume272 comments on the video · 20 in one call · a cursor pages the rest
top comment267 likes and 17 replies, asking for the test to be rerun
the themesthe method was unfair, the matchup was wrong, and the same-day turnaround was worth it
why it mattersthe loudest comment is the next video's brief
$0.0015per call, 20 comments
A channel's cadence
Say this to your agent
>resolve <channel> to its channel id with monid if all you have is a handle, then pull its recent uploads: title, views, duration and how long ago, and tell me the cadence and the best performer
What the agent runsdone
tikhub /youtube/web_v2/get_channel_videos$0.0015
apify /streamers/youtube-scraper · not run$0.0045 / result
What came backone topic · 2026-09-23
YouTube
I Turned GPT-6 Astra Into a 24/7 Stock Trade…
YouTube
GPT-6 Astra Made This Entire Video
the feed30 uploads with views and durations, no API key and no quota
cadence10 videos in 10 days, readable straight off the response
best performer301K views against a 38K median for the window, about 8x
$0.0015per call, 30 uploads
Shorts on the same topic
Say this to your agent
>search youtube shorts for <topic> with monid on the cleaned v2 endpoint, not the raw one. send the query only: the documented filters reject when you combine them
What the agent runsdone
tikhub /youtube/web_v2/get_shorts_search$0.0015
tikhub /youtube/web_v2/get_shorts_search_v2 · not run$0.003
What came backone topic · 2026-09-23
YouTube Shorts
Can GPT-6 Astra Build a Full Blender Scene F…
YouTube Shorts
GPT 6 Astra Has Blender Skills...
reach25 shorts totalling 2,738,225 views, more than all 20 long-form results combined
top short1.2M views on its own
the gotchaupload_time plus sort_by plus the mixed-content filter returns 400; query only works
$0.0015per search, 25 shorts
What is trending right now
Say this to your agent
>pull youtube trending with monid. if it 404s, say so and move on rather than retrying: a dead upstream route bills $0.00
What the agent runsdone
tikhub /youtube/web/get_trending_videos$0.00
What came backone topic · 2026-09-23
what happened404 twice, once with a section and once without
what it cost$0.0000 both times · a failed provider call is not billed
debuggingthe 404 shows verbatim in the run record, so no proxy log is needed
the lessonthe health label can lag the upstream, so budget for the miss rather than the retry
$0.00two failed attempts, nothing billed
Step 3
Take the cheapest route with Monid.
The transcript is five times the price of everything else. Read the cheap metadata first and buy it only where the numbers justify it.
Search · $0.0015 for twenty
Video search$0.001520 rows with views
Shorts search$0.001525 shorts
Triage · first source that covers it
TikHub comments$0.0015
Apify comments$0.0022
Apify channel$0.0045
MrScraper video$0.01
Read in full
Transcript$0.0075
Jev judgement$0.042worth a digest · catalog rate
Digest
rowtriaged bycost
1TikHub comments$0.0105
2TikHub comments$0.0105
3no views, skipped$0.0015
4Apify comments$0.0127
5TikHub comments$0.0105
5 of 5 rows$0.0457
Say this to your agent
>digest this week's youtube videos about <topic>, reusing the search you already ran, cheapest source first, and show the cost per video
“sort by views first”the rank-1 hit was an upcoming stream with nothing to read
“comments before transcript”a comment call is a seventh of the transcript price and tells you whether the video is worth reading
“transcribe only the ones that matter”twenty transcripts is $0.15; three is $0.02
“cost per video”the receipt ends up in the file
One key. 1,700+ tools.
YouTube is one aisle.
Search, comments, channelstikhub · $0.0015 / call
Transcripts and actorsapify · from $0.00045 / result
One video, one pagemrscraper · $0.01 / call
Judge every rowtypesafe · $0.042 / call
The web around itexa · from $0.002 / query
Read any URLcontext.dev · $0.018 / page
Narrate the digestelevenlabs · to $0.22 / call
Cut a clip from itminimax · $0.038 / s at 480P
The creator on LinkedInploid · $0.01 / profile
Verify their emailhunterio · $0.012 / check
Send the digestagentmail · $0.001 / email
Record the call about itrecall · $0.50 / meeting
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