What is youtube-intel?

YouTube Intel is a Chrome browser extension that gives YouTube creators a competitive intelligence dashboard for monitoring and comparing multiple channels. The creator built it because they were manually checking more than ten channels every day to track posting patterns and content strategies, and wanted to automate that process. After installing the extension and adding channels you want to watch (by URL, handle, or channel ID), it automatically scans those channels every 60 minutes using RSS feeds and video page scraping, no YouTube API key required, no server, no signup. The data stays entirely in your browser. The dashboard shows a weekly summary of each tracked channel's recent videos. A cross-channel AI analysis layer runs locally in the browser and identifies patterns across all the channels you follow: title formats that are oversaturated, content formats nobody else is using, which channels get the most views relative to their subscriber count, and posting schedule patterns. The extension also injects badges directly into YouTube.com pages so you can see at a glance which channels you are tracking and which ones qualify as hidden gems (low subscriber count but high engagement). Compare mode lets you view two or more channels side by side, comparing titles in a table, tags in a word cloud, thumbnail grids, and hourly posting schedules. Chrome notifications alert you when any tracked channel uploads a new video. The extension is built with vanilla JavaScript, stores data in Chrome's local storage, and is available for Chrome, Edge, and Brave. The interface supports both English and Spanish.