# analyzing-competitor-youtube-content-strategy

Audits a competitor’s YouTube strategy by topic, format, publishing cadence, views, and engagement. Use it to compare two channels or find content gaps.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 776 installs · ★ 1
- Author: apidojo
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/apidojo-io/apidojo-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/intent/analyzing-competitor-youtube-content-strategy/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-05-13
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/analyzing-competitor-youtube-content-strategy

## What it does

This skill runs `apidojo~youtube-scraper` on Apify and examines a competitor’s recent videos. It sorts videos by format and length, calculates views-to-subscriber ratio, engagement rate, and publishing cadence, then surfaces strong topics and formats. The report can also flag median views, outliers, and low-view channels when those cases affect the analysis.

The workflow covers scraping, video classification, metric calculation, pattern detection, and report delivery. You can run it with `scripts/run_actor.js`, an Apify MCP server, or the REST API. Inputs support channel URLs, handles, keywords, country and language codes, upload-date filters, duration filters, feature filters, sorting, and a maximum item count. Results may be saved as CSV or JSON.

Set `APIFY_TOKEN` in the environment or in `.env`; without it, `run_actor.js` cannot start the actor. If subscriber data cannot be obtained, the skill falls back to a view-based channel health ratio.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add apidojo-io/apidojo-skills --skill analyzing-competitor-youtube-content-strategy -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/analyzing-competitor-youtube-content-strategy/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/analyzing-competitor-youtube-content-strategy/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add apidojo-io/apidojo-skills --skill analyzing-competitor-youtube-content-strategy -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/analyzing-competitor-youtube-content-strategy/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add apidojo-io/apidojo-skills --skill analyzing-competitor-youtube-content-strategy -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/analyzing-competitor-youtube-content-strategy/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install apidojo-io/apidojo-skills analyzing-competitor-youtube-content-strategy
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/analyzing-competitor-youtube-content-strategy/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add apidojo-io/apidojo-skills --skill analyzing-competitor-youtube-content-strategy -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/apidojo-io/apidojo-skills --path skills/intent/analyzing-competitor-youtube-content-strategy
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/analyzing-competitor-youtube-content-strategy/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add apidojo-io/apidojo-skills --skill analyzing-competitor-youtube-content-strategy -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/apidojo-io/apidojo-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/intent/analyzing-competitor-youtube-content-strategy/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- audit a competitor’s recent YouTube videos
- compare video topics and formats
- rank videos by views and engagement
- measure a channel’s publishing cadence
- spot content gaps against a competitor

## Example prompts
- Analyze this competitor’s YouTube channel and show which topics and formats perform best.
- Compare our channel with the competitor using views, engagement rate, and publishing cadence.
- Find content gaps from the videos in `startUrls` and write a strategy report.

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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```text
---
name: analyzing-competitor-youtube-content-strategy
description: >
  Analyzes a competitor's YouTube channel content strategy and performance using apidojo's YouTube
  scraper on Apify. Triggers when the user asks to: analyze what a competitor posts on YouTube,
  see what video types perform best for a competitor, reverse-engineer a competitor's YouTube
  content calendar, benchmark your YouTube channel against a competitor, identify content gaps
  vs. a competitor on YouTube, understand what topics drive views for a competitor, or compare
  subscriber growth and video performance between two YouTube channels.
  Returns video cadence, format mix, top-performing topics, view benchmarks, and engagement analysis.
  Ideal for content marketing teams, YouTube strategists, and brand video teams.
license: Apache-2.0
metadata:
  author: apidojo
  version: "1.0"
  apify-actor: apidojo/youtube-scraper
---

# Analyzing Competitor YouTube Content Strategy

Reverse-engineers a competitor's YouTube channel by analyzing their last 20-50 videos. Identifies which video topics, formats, and lengths drive the most views and engagement.

## Prerequisites

- `APIFY_TOKEN` environment variable set
- Optional: Apify MCP server installed

## Inputs

| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Notes |
|-----------|------|----------|---------|-------|
| `startUrls` | array | Optional | `[]` | YouTube URLs — channels, playlists, Shorts, search results |
| `youtubeHandles` | array | Optional | `[]` | YouTube channel handles (e.g. `@kurzgesagt`) |
| `getTrending` | boolean | Optional | `false` | Retrieve trending videos |
| `keywords` | array | Optional | `[]` | Search keywords |
| `gl` | string | Optional | `us` | Country code for results (e.g. `US`, `GB`) |
| `hl` | string | Optional | `en` | Language code (e.g. `en`, `de`) |
| `uploadDate` | string | Optional | `all` | Upload date filter: `any`, `hour`, `today`, `week`, `month`, `year` |
| `duration` | string | Optional | `all` | Duration filter: `any`, `short`, `long` |
| `features` | string | Optional | `all` | Feature filter: `4k`, `hd`, `live`, `cc`, `3d`, `hdr`, etc. |
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