YouTube Shorts Idea Mining
Find Shorts ideas from any YouTube channel.
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PlugThis prompt
Build a Chrome extension called "YouTube Shorts Idea Mining" that, on any YouTube channel page, scrapes recent long-form video titles, view counts, and descriptions. For each top-performing video, send the title and description to GPT-4 with a prompt to extract 3 high-hook Shorts ideas (sub-60s, single-takeaway). Display the ideas in a sortable side panel with the source video link. Export as CSV. User-supplied OpenAI key. Permissions: storage, activeTab, downloads. Host permissions: https://www.youtube.com/*, https://api.openai.com/*. Manifest V3.
How to build it in 3 minutes
- Sign in to PlugThis and open the chat input.
- Copy the prompt above and paste it into the chat.
- PlugThis generates the full Manifest V3 extension in 60-90 seconds.
- Download the zip, extract it, and load it via
chrome://extensionsdeveloper mode.