Yt viral skill
Find what is actually working in the user's niche on YouTube and rank it by how far each video beat its own channel, then name the formula.
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SKILL.md · the author's own words# yt-viral Raw view counts rank channel size, not ideas. This ranks by **multiple over each channel's own median**, which is the only version of the question that is about the video. ```bash python3 swipe.py collected.json --min 2.0 ``` ## Collecting the input You need at least **four videos per channel** or a median means nothing, and the tool will skip the channel and tell you it did. Collect them however the user prefers - `yt-dlp --flat-playlist -J` against a channel URL is the fastest, the public page works, a manual list works. ```json
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Raw view counts rank channel size, not ideas. This ranks by multiple over each channel's own median, which is the only version of the question that is about the video.
python3 swipe.py collected.json --min 2.0
Collecting the input
You need at least four videos per channel or a median means nothing, and the tool will skip the
channel and tell you it did. Collect them however the user prefers - yt-dlp --flat-playlist -J
against a channel URL is the fastest, the public page works, a manual list works.
[{"channel":"...","title":"...","views":412000,"url":"...","duration":613}]
Read, do not scrape. Public listings only, never a logged-in session, never the user's own account credentials.
Reading the output
The multiple is the signal. The formula line is a judgement about the TITLE, matched against the 21 formulas - it is not a claim about why the video worked, and you should say so when you present it.
What to hand back: the top five with their multiples, the formula each used, and the ONE structural thing they share. Then the harder line - which of those the user could actually make this week, in their voice, with what they have.
The gate
Nothing here publishes. This skill writes and you publish. Every output ends in a block the user copies, and the last line of every run is the question: ship it, or change it?
| 1 | |
| 2 | name yt-viral |
| 3 | description >- |
| 4 | Find what is actually working in the user's niche on YouTube and rank it |
| 5 | by how far each video beat its own channel, then name the formula. Use for |
| 6 | "what's working right now", "find viral videos in my niche", "why did this |
| 7 | blow up", competitor research, or a swipe file. |
| 8 | |
| 9 | |
| 10 | # yt-viral |
| 11 | |
| 12 | Raw view counts rank channel size, not ideas. This ranks by **multiple over each channel's own |
| 13 | median**, which is the only version of the question that is about the video. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | |
| 16 | python3 swipe.py collected.json --min 2.0 |
| 17 | |
| 18 | |
| 19 | ## Collecting the input |
| 20 | |
| 21 | You need at least **four videos per channel** or a median means nothing, and the tool will skip the |
| 22 | channel and tell you it did. Collect them however the user prefers - `yt-dlp --flat-playlist -J` |
| 23 | against a channel URL is the fastest, the public page works, a manual list works. |
| 24 | |
| 25 | |
| 26 | [{"channel":"...","title":"...","views":412000,"url":"...","duration":613}] |
| 27 | |
| 28 | |
| 29 | **Read, do not scrape.** Public listings only, never a logged-in session, never the user's own |
| 30 | account credentials. |
| 31 | |
| 32 | ## Reading the output |
| 33 | |
| 34 | The multiple is the signal. The formula line is a judgement about the TITLE, matched against |
| 35 | [the 21 formulas] - it is not a claim about why the video worked, and you |
| 36 | should say so when you present it. |
| 37 | |
| 38 | What to hand back: the top five with their multiples, the formula each used, and the ONE structural |
| 39 | thing they share. Then the harder line - which of those the user could actually make this week, in |
| 40 | their voice, with what they have. |
| 41 | |
| 42 | ## The gate |
| 43 | |
| 44 | Nothing here publishes. This skill writes and you publish. Every output ends in a block the user |
| 45 | copies, and the last line of every run is the question: **ship it, or change it?** |
| 46 |
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