Manually checking YouTube channels for new content is slow, error-prone, and impossible to scale. Most media monitoring tools cover Twitter, newsletters, and press releases — but miss YouTube entirely, which is exactly where primary sources speak longest and most openly. VidProxy closes that gap.
Think about where primary sources actually speak. Press conferences are streamed on YouTube. Congressional hearings run for hours on C-SPAN's channel. CEO town halls go up on the company's investor relations channel before any summary lands in a press release. Product launches are announced in YouTube-first events. Analyst day presentations run 90 minutes and cover things the slides don't capture.
Traditional media monitoring tools track mentions across web, print, and social. They flag when a brand is mentioned in a news article or a tweet. Almost none of them systematically monitor YouTube — and zero of them deliver the full transcript into your pipeline so you can search it, summarize it, or act on it programmatically.
If you're a journalist tracking five government channels, a researcher following ten industry spokespeople, or a PR team watching competitor executives — checking YouTube manually means someone has to remember to check, know which channels to check, and then actually read or watch the content. That workflow breaks the moment you're tracking more than a handful of sources or can't afford a miss on a time-sensitive story.
You need the channel-to-inbox pipeline to be automatic, the full transcript to be delivered the moment a video goes live, and the whole thing to run without babysitting.
VidProxy monitors any public YouTube channel via RSS and delivers the full transcript the moment a new video is detected.
Paste any YouTube channel URL, @handle, or channel ID into the VidProxy dashboard. No YouTube API key required, no Google Cloud project, no OAuth setup. VidProxy monitors the channel's RSS feed continuously — add as many channels as your plan allows.
Enter any endpoint that accepts a POST request — your own server, an n8n workflow, a Make scenario, a Slack incoming webhook handler. Optionally add a tag (e.g. "Government", "Tech CEOs") and a keyword filter so only relevant videos trigger the alert. VidProxy handles the rest.
The moment VidProxy detects a new video, it fetches the transcript and fires your webhook with the full payload: video title, URL, publish time, channel name, and the complete transcript text with timestamps. If the transcript isn't ready yet, VidProxy holds and retries for up to 24 hours — then delivers once it's available.
A Node.js webhook handler that receives a VidProxy payload and posts the video title, channel, and a transcript excerpt to Slack.
// POST /webhooks/news-monitor app.post('/webhooks/news-monitor', async (req, res) => { res.sendStatus(200); // Acknowledge immediately const { video, transcript, subscription } = req.body; // Grab the first ~400 chars of transcript as a preview const preview = transcript?.text ?.replace(/\s+/g, ' ') .trim() .slice(0, 400) .concat('...'); const slackPayload = { blocks: [ { type: "header", text: { type: "plain_text", text: "New video published" } }, { type: "section", text: { type: "mrkdwn", text: `*<${video.url}|${video.title}>*\n_${subscription.channel_name}_ · ${video.published}` } }, { type: "section", text: { type: "mrkdwn", text: `*Transcript preview:*\n> ${preview}` } }, { type: "actions", elements: [{ type: "button", text: { type: "plain_text", text: "Watch on YouTube" }, url: video.url }] } ] }; await fetch(process.env.SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL, { method: 'POST', headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }, body: JSON.stringify(slackPayload) }); });
VidProxy can monitor any public YouTube channel. The categories below are where the most unmonitored, high-signal content lives.
Government agencies, companies, and institutions stream official press conferences directly to YouTube. Many run 30–90 minutes and contain far more detail than any follow-up coverage.
Committee hearings, floor debates, agency briefings, and regulatory announcements are published in full on official YouTube channels — often before any summary reaches the press.
Public companies increasingly post full earnings calls and analyst day presentations to their IR YouTube channels — often faster and with more candid Q&A than any transcript service covers.
Leading analysts at Gartner, Forrester, and independent research firms publish detailed market commentary on YouTube. Track their views on your category before reports are published.
Executives post keynotes, conference talks, and podcast appearances on their personal or company channels. What they say on camera is often more revealing than polished PR output.
Companies announce new products, feature releases, and roadmap updates in YouTube-first events. Monitor their channel and you'll know what they announced — and exactly how they framed it — within minutes.
Free tier includes 1 channel. Pro adds keyword filtering, 2-minute polling, and up to 100 channels.
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