Written By Andrew Petrovics
Last updated About 2 months ago
Automations allow you to automatically create blog posts when new videos are released on a particular YouTube channel.
To get started with automations click on the Automation menu (the robot icon) or navigate directly to it here.
Good to know: All blog posts created via an automation will count towards your usage the same as if you created the blog manually.
Important: All automations will create AT MAX 5 blog posts per day. If you need more than this please reach out.
Good to know: Automation will not pull any YouTube Shorts videos.
Creating Automations
To create an automation click on the “Create Automation” button and then following these steps…
1. Enter a YouTube Channel URL
This will be the YouTube channel for which blog posts get created each time a new video is released on the channel.
Channels will be checked every hour for new video releases.
2. Select an Action
This is where you specify what you want to do once your blog post is generated. You have the option of emailing the blog post to you in one or more formats as well as exporting the blog post directly to your website.
Good to know: Only websites added in your integrations will show. Learn more.
Good to know: You will always be emailed when a blog post is generated.
Tip: You can select multiple export formats and/or website to export your blog to.
3. Configure Blog Generation Settings
Lastly, you can configure the exact settings to be used for your generated blog post.
Once you are done click the “Create Automation” button and that’s it!
Editing Automations
You can edit your automation at anytime by clicking on your automation in the automations screen.
This will bring up the Edit Automation dialog where you can make any desired changes to your automation.
Disabling Automations
If you want to disable your automation (but not delete it entirely) you can do so by clicking the switch to the right of your automation.
This will stop your automation from checking for new video releases.
When you enable your automation again it will start checking for new releases from the time after you reenabled it.
Deleting Automations
To delete your automation click on your automation to bring up the Edit Automations dialog and then click the ellipsis button on top right and then click Delete.
