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YouTube

Connecting YouTube lets Kinn read the comment conversations on the videos you care about — the questions, confusion, and reactions that show up after someone watches a tutorial, a launch video, or a review. It's a useful complement to Discord and Reddit: video comments tend to capture a different, often more casual slice of your audience.

What it pulls in​

Once connected, Kinn reads public comments and their replies on the videos you choose to track. You can track them at three levels of granularity, and mix and match freely:

  • Channels — Kinn follows comments across all of a channel's videos.
  • Playlists — comments on the videos within a playlist you specify.
  • Individual videos — index specific videos directly when you only care about a few.

It does not read:

  • The video content itself — Kinn reads the comments, not the audio or transcript
  • Private, unlisted, or members-only videos it can't access
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Like Reddit, YouTube is public, so there's no bot to install. You tell Kinn which channels, playlists, or videos to follow, at whatever granularity fits what you're trying to learn.

How to connect​

  1. From your dashboard, go to Sources → Add source → YouTube.
  2. Authorize Kinn's read-only access when prompted.
  3. Add what you want to track. You can combine all three types:
    • Paste a channel to follow comments across its videos.
    • Paste a playlist to track the videos in it.
    • Paste individual video URLs or IDs to index just those.
  4. Wait for the initial sync to finish. Once it shows as synced, you can run your first query.
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Tracking a whole channel pulls in everything, including older, low-traffic videos. If you mainly care about a launch or a handful of key tutorials, indexing those individual videos keeps the signal tight and focused.

Permissions​

Kinn requests read-only access to public YouTube comment data on the channels, playlists, and videos you track.

Kinn does not request permission to post or reply to comments, moderate, or make any changes to your channel or videos. It only reads what's already public.

What you can now ask​

Once YouTube is connected and synced, try:

  • What are viewers confused about in the comments on our tutorial videos?
  • How are people reacting to our launch video?
  • What questions come up most across our channel's comments?
  • Are commenters reporting any bugs?
  • What feature requests show up in video comments?

See Writing good queries for how to get sharper answers, and Example queries for a fuller library grouped by what you're trying to do.