Workflow · Marketing
Competitor channels → weekly brief
Watching three competitors’ channels is a part-time job. Checking what they published and reading only what matters is one scheduled prompt.
How it works
- List the competitor channels you care about.
- The assistant checks each with get_latest_videos — always free, so the check itself costs nothing.
- It fetches transcripts only for videos matching your topics.
- It writes a brief: what each competitor said, notable claims quoted, links included.
The trick: the check is free
get_latest_videos reads the channel’s RSS feed and never charges a credit. That makes polling economical: a daily or weekly run only spends credits when a competitor actually published something relevant — most runs cost zero.
Check what these channels uploaded in the last 7 days:
@competitor1, @competitor2, @competitor3
For anything about [YOUR MARKET], read the transcript and summarize their
positioning in 3 bullets with one direct quote each. If nothing relevant
was published, just say so.# free — poll as often as you like
curl "https://bulktranscripts.co/api/v1/channel/latest?channel=@competitor1"
# 1 credit — only when a video is worth reading
curl "https://bulktranscripts.co/api/v1/transcript?video=NEW_VIDEO_ID&segments=0"What you’ll need
An MCP-capable assistant (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor) connected to https://bulktranscripts.co/mcp — one sign-in includes 30 free credits — or a license key for the REST API. Transcripts already in your library are re-read free, so iterating on the same videos costs nothing after the first pass.
Common questions
Can this run on a schedule?
Yes — use your assistant's scheduled tasks, a cron job against the REST API, or the n8n pattern in our n8n guide. The free latest-uploads check is designed for exactly this.
How current is the upload feed?
It reads YouTube's own RSS feed — typically minutes behind a new upload, returning the latest 15 videos with publish timestamps.