Find and read YouTube videos on your topic with your AI agent
Ask your agent which YouTube videos cover your topic, then have it read one. A real run: the search, the top videos and a competitor's video read in full.
Which YouTube videos cover Claude Code SEO?
At a glance
| Job | The videos your buyers watch, read instead of watched |
|---|---|
| Tools | youtube_search_videos, youtube_get_transcript |
| Credits | 2: one search and one transcript |
| Returns | Title, views and length, then the full transcript |
| Run on | "claude code seo", past month, 26 October 2026 |
The prompts
We asked our own agent, Claude Code connected to Manifold, on 26 October 2026:
Find YouTube videos from the past month about Claude Code for SEO, and list them by views
with their length.Then, after reading the list:
Read the DataForSEO video and tell me what it shows, what you need to follow it and what it
says it costs.The calls
| Step | Tool | Input | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | youtube_search_videos | "claude code seo", past month | 1 |
| 2 | youtube_get_transcript | DataForSEO's video | 1 |
The search returns YouTube's ranked results with each video's title, views and length. The transcript is the whole text of what the video says. This search returned no like counts or channel sizes; youtube_get_video and youtube_get_channel read those for one video or channel.
What came back
20 videos, with 755,101 views in all. The ten most viewed:
DataForSEO's own video, How to Build an SEO Content Plan with Claude Code + DataForSEO, had 719 views, 17th of the 20. From its transcript:
- What it shows: you give Claude a topic, seed keywords or a competitor's domain, and it builds a content plan: it widens the topic into a keyword list, scores each keyword's difficulty and intent, groups them into topics and writes a roadmap.
- What you need: a DataForSEO account, Claude Code, DataForSEO's MCP server connected, and its content plan skill, downloaded and copied into the Claude skills folder.
- What it says it costs: about 40 cents to build and score 1,000 keywords. The run in the video took about five and a half minutes and wrote a PDF, an Excel file and a JSON file.
What the agent concluded
- The biggest videos are about Claude Code, not SEO. The two most viewed, with 354,080 and 167,337 views, are general Claude Code videos. 11 of the 20 titles name SEO.
- A few channels post often. Three channels posted three videos each in the month.
- A data provider teaches the job itself. DataForSEO shows the whole workflow on its own channel, with its own account, server and skill. Manifold's SEO tools run on DataForSEO's data too, without a DataForSEO account: one hosted connector with one credit balance for SEO, AI answers, social and leads.
Run it on yours
Put your own topic in the same prompts:
Find YouTube videos from the past {month or year} about {your topic}, and list them by views
with their length. Then read {the one that matters} and tell me what it shows.Then read what viewers asked with youtube_get_comments, or list a channel's own videos with youtube_get_videos.
