Discover

The Discover panel is a YouTube research tool powered by yt-dlp. Search for videos, analyze channels, estimate earnings, and save inspiring content as ideas. Reach it from the top-chrome stage rail — Discover is the leftmost stage.

Layout

• Left — filter rail. Search input at the top, then stacked filter sections (Sort by / Duration / Date / Channel size cap / Outlier / Topic tags) and a Filter loop status card at the bottom that shows how many videos are currently kept.
• Main — results area. Channel strip (when applicable) and the progressively-loaded video grid. Infinite scroll pulls more results when you approach the bottom.

Searching

Type in the Search box in the left rail and hit Enter (or click the button beneath it). Results load in batches — scroll down to fetch more. Your channel's Topic tags show up as pill-buttons in the rail so you can jump straight to relevant queries.

No API key needed

Basic search works without a YouTube API key (uses yt-dlp). Adding a key enables subscriber-cap and outlier filters plus channel comparison. Status is reflected in which filter groups appear in the left rail.

Filters

All filters re-run the search as soon as they change.

Filter	Options	What it does
Sort by	Relevance / Most viewed / Newest	Result ordering
Duration	Any / < 4 min (Shorts) / 4–20 min / 20+ min	Video length
Date	Any time / Past week / Past month / Past year	Recency
Channel size cap	Any / < 1M / < 100K / < 10K / < 1K	Subscriber cap — requires API key
Outlier	Any / ≥ 5× / ≥ 10× / ≥ 50×	Videos with views well above the channel's average — requires API key
Topic tags	Pill-buttons from your channel config	One-click topical searches

Filter loop

Because tight filters (e.g. 10× outliers + <10K subs) can eliminate most of any given batch, the backend searches progressively wider — up to ~6000 raw results — to surface matches. The Filter loop card at the bottom of the left rail shows live status (142 kept, exhausted, searching…) so you can tell whether to wait or loosen a filter.

Channel deep dive

Click a channel name (accent link) on any video card to open the deep dive. The main column switches to channel-focused view.

Analytics

• Subscribers, Total Views, Video Count
• Avg Views, Upload Frequency, Engagement Rate
• Subs/Day, Shorts Ratio, Videos in last 30 days
• Monetization badge (≥1K subs + ≥4K watch hours in 12 months)

Estimated earnings

Based on your channel's RPM setting (configurable in Settings):

• Monthly revenue — estimated monthly views × RPM
• Per video — average views × RPM
• 30-day views — projected monthly view count

Channel comparison

Click + Add this channel to add to the comparison table. Compare up to 3 channels side-by-side: subs, total views, avg views, and estimated earnings per video.

Recent videos

Scrollable list of the latest uploads. Click any to view full metadata.

Video detail

Click any video card to expand in-place and see full metadata:

• Views, likes, comments, duration, upload date
• Full description
• Tags and categories
• Chapters (if available)
• Transcript — fetches and displays captions
• Inspire — creates an idea with all enrichment data

Inspire

Every video card has an Inspire button. It creates an idea with:

• Video title as the idea title
• Channel name in the hook
• Enrichment: views, duration, description, transcript (if fetched)
• Source: discover, with the original URL stored for attribution

The idea appears immediately in the Ideas panel, tagged ⊕ Discover with the view count visible in the list's source column.