Get YouTube primers for assigned GitHub issues
Move from assignment anxiety to a concrete starting point.
Trigger
New Issue Assigned to Me
Triggers when a new issue is assigned to the authenticated user. Fires an event for each GitHub issue that is newly assigned to the authenticated user. Pull requests are automatically excluded -- only true issues are emitted. Issues can optionally be filtered by labels and state. The payload includes the issue number, title, body, state, labels, assignees, creator, repository details, and timestamps.
Action
Search YouTube
Searches youtube for videos, channels, or playlists using a query term, returning the raw api response.
Why this helps
An unfamiliar assigned issue can linger because getting started feels expensive.
- Lowers the activation energy
- Keeps assignment context together
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect GitHub and YouTube to Notis once.
- 2Open Automations and create a new one.
- 3Tell Notis to find a short YouTube primer relevant to each issue assigned to you.
- 4Select New Issue Assigned to Me and a reporting channel.
- 5Assign yourself a test issue.
Questions about this workflow
Does it change the issue?
No, it searches YouTube and reports useful resources.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link GitHub to Youtube. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
GitHub triggers
Youtube actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Get Channel Activities
Gets recent activities from a youtube channel including video uploads, playlist additions, likes, and other channel events.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Get channel ID by handle
Retrieves the youtube channel id for a specific youtube channel handle.
New Workflow Artifact Created
Triggers when a new workflow artifact is created in a GitHub repository. Monitors for newly created GitHub Actions workflow artifacts. Optionally filters by artifact name to restrict monitoring to specific artifacts.
Get Channel Statistics
Gets detailed statistics for youtube channels including subscriber counts, view counts, and video counts.
Branch Changed
Triggers when a GitHub branch changes. Monitors a specific branch for: - New commits pushed (head commit SHA changes) - Protection status toggled (branch becomes protected or unprotected) - Protection settings changed, including: required status checks and their enforcement level, admin enforcement, required pull request reviews (dismiss stale reviews, code owner reviews, approving review count, last push approval), required linear history, force push allowance, deletion allowance, conversation resolution, branch locking, and fork syncing.
List captions
Retrieves a list of caption tracks for a youtube video, returning an empty list if no captions exist or failing if the video id is invalid or not found.
New Branch Created
Triggers when a new branch is created in a GitHub repository. Detects newly created branches. Deleted branches do not fire events.
List channel videos
Lists videos from a specified youtube channel, ensuring results are of `type: 'video'`.
Check Run Status / Conclusion Changed
Triggers when a specific GitHub check run changes its status or conclusion. Monitors a single check run for changes to: status (queued, in_progress, completed, etc.), conclusion (success, failure, neutral, cancelled, skipped, timed_out, action_required), started_at, and completed_at.
List user playlists
Retrieves playlists owned by the authenticated user, implicitly using mine=true.
Check Suite Status / Conclusion Changed
Triggers when a GitHub check suite changes its status or conclusion for a given ref. Monitors all check suites associated with a git reference (branch, tag, or commit SHA) for changes to status (queued, in_progress, completed, etc.) and conclusion (success, failure, neutral, cancelled, skipped, timed_out, action_required, startup_failure, stale). Optionally filters by GitHub App ID.
List user subscriptions
Retrieves the authenticated user's youtube channel subscriptions, allowing specification of response parts and pagination.
New Code Scanning Alert Created
Triggers when a new code scanning alert is created in a repository. Fires an event for each newly created code scanning alert detected in the configured repository. Alerts can be filtered by Git reference, scanning tool, state, and severity. The payload includes the alert number, rule details, tool information, state, severity, and the location of the most recent instance.
Download YouTube caption track
Downloads a specific youtube caption track, which must be owned by the authenticated user, and returns its content as text.
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