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Accepted formats: @MrBeast, https://www.youtube.com/@MrBeast, channel/UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA. You're only charged for the ones we actually find — a miss costs nothing.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "testRun": { "title": "Try it first — only process the first 5", "type": "boolean", "description": "Turn this on to test your input on a small sample before running the full list. Turn it off to process everything.", "default": false }, "onlyFound": { "title": "Hide rows with no result", "type": "boolean", "description": "Only keep rows where something was actually found. Misses are always free, whether or not you show them here.", "default": false }, "includeKeywords": { "title": "Only keep rows containing", "type": "array", "description": "Optional. Only keep results that mention at least one of these words (e.g. a job title, a city, a product name). Leave empty to keep everything.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "excludeKeywords": { "title": "Skip rows containing", "type": "array", "description": "Optional. Drop any result that mentions one of these words. Leave empty to skip nothing.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "maxResults": { "title": "Stop after this many results", "minimum": 1, "type": "integer", "description": "Optional. Stop the run once this many results have been found — useful for a quick, cheap sample. Leave blank for no limit." }, "deltaMode": { "title": "Only return videos that are new since the last run", "type": "boolean", "description": "Turns this actor into an upload monitor. A video counts as new when its YouTube video ID has not been returned for that channel by a previous run of the same watchlist. Already-seen uploads are dropped from the list, so your Slack or n8n step only ever sees fresh videos. Each channel is still looked up and billed once, exactly as with this off, and its stats row always comes back (with an empty upload list when nothing was posted). The first run has nothing to compare against, so it returns every recent upload and remembers it. Only the uploads inside 'How many recent uploads to include' are compared, so keep that at 10 or more for channels that post several times a day.", "default": false }, "deltaName": { "title": "Watchlist name (optional)", "type": "string", "description": "Leave empty and we derive one from your channel list, so two schedules watching different channels keep separate memories. Editing the list then starts a fresh watchlist that re-announces each channel's recent uploads once; type your own name to keep one memory across list edits. Naming a watchlist with the checkbox above off returns every upload but still stamps each one with 'Is this video new?' and 'First seen', so you can filter them yourself in Sheets, n8n or Make.", "default": "" }, "columns": { "title": "Which columns do you want?", "type": "array", "description": "Choose which pieces of information to include in each result row. 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