YouTube

How Harken finds YouTube videos on your topics, which commenters it records, and when YouTube is available.

Product reviews, tutorials and comparison videos draw comment sections full of people weighing their options. Someone asking under a review whether a tool handles their use case is usually closer to a decision than the person who uploaded the video.

What Harken collects

When YouTube is switched on, an agent's topic source looks for recent public videos that match your keywords. Each video becomes a card in the Posts feed with its title, channel, upload time and public view count.

The video is scored on its title, not on what is said aloud, so a clear title matters more than the footage.

Which actions count as signals

• Uploading: the channel behind a matching video is shown as the author.
• Commenting: people who left a top-level comment on a matching video. Harken keeps the comment text and its time.

Views feed the engagement score only. Replies nested under other comments are not read in this release.

How the data reaches Harken

Video search goes through a licensed data provider. Comments are read from YouTube's official data interface with a key that belongs to the deployment. That interface hands out a fixed amount of work each day, and Harken keeps a running total: once the daily share is used up, comment collection stops until the next day while video search carries on.

Harken does not sign in to YouTube, does not like or subscribe, and never writes comments for you.

Availability

YouTube is listed under rivals and reputation in the agent wizard. It becomes selectable once Harken has switched it on, and shows Soon until then.

FAQ

Why did some videos arrive without commenters?

Either the daily comment allowance was already spent, or the uploader turned comments off. The video itself is still scored and shown.

Will a long video rank higher?

No. Length plays no part. Relevance comes from how closely the title fits your keywords and the company description.