youtube-idea-finderlisted

# YouTube Idea Finder Idea and name credit: inspired by [Shane Hummus](https://www.youtube.com/@ShaneHummus)'s YouTube videos on channel strategy and finding proven video ideas — this skill automates that "find videos overperforming their channel size" research. Find videos on a given topic where the view count is large relative to the channel's subscriber count — a signal that a small or unknown creator produced something that broke out beyond their usual audience. This uses the YouTube Data API v3 (`search.list`, `videos.list`, `channels.list`) via a bundled script, so results are exact numbers straight from the API rather than scraped or estimated. ## Inputs The only thing the user is required to give you is the **search term** (the topic/niche). Everything else has a sensible default, and you should state the defaults you're using up front so the user can redirect you if they actually wanted something different: | Parameter | Default | Notes | |---|---|---| | Minimum views | 100,000 | The "overperformance" floor | | Maximum subscribers | 100,000 | Keeps results to small/mid channels | | Minimum views : subscribers ratio | 5 : 1 | The core "punching above their weight" signal | | Number of candidates to find | 5 | Stop once you hit this many | | Max search pages | 5 | Quota safety cap — see Quota below | If the user gives you different numbers, use theirs instead. If the script exhausts search results or hits the search-page cap before reaching the requested count, r