YouTube Alerts
Alerts for every channel you follow. New video, New Short, Goes live. New uploads and live streams typically show up within a few minutes.
Arclo watches a channel and posts an announcement when something new appears. The engine, the message editor, the filter rules and the behavior options are the same on every platform. See Social Alerts for those. This page covers what is specific to YouTube.
Adding a channel
- YouTube channel
- Handles (@name), channel URLs and UC… channel ids all work. For example:
@mkbhd or a channel URL. - Channel
- Where the alert is posted. A forum channel makes each alert its own thread.
What it announces
| Event | On by default |
|---|---|
| New video | Yes |
| New Short | Yes |
| Goes live | Yes |
How fast
New uploads and live streams typically show up within a few minutes.
Placeholders
| Placeholder | Becomes |
|---|---|
{creator} | The creator's display name |
{title} | The video title |
{description} | A short excerpt of the content |
{url} | Link to the video |
{creator_avatar} | Creator avatar URL |
{thumbnail} | Preview image URL |
{platform} | The platform's name |
Filter fields
The fields a filter rule on this platform can match against:
- Title or description (
text) - Title (
title) - Description (
description)
See also
Still stuck? Ask in the support server: somebody there has almost certainly configured this before.