What you’d write
Paste the channel URL — the @handle form works. SurveiLN reads the channel’s upload feed, so it sees new videos without scraping the page.
youtube.com/@LinusTechTips“Notify me when Linus posts about NAS builds or home servers”
You get: “New video: I built a 100TB NAS for my mom”
Ignored: the other four uploads that week about phones and keyboards.
youtube.com/@3blue1brown“Tell me about every new video”
You get: One notification per upload, with the title and a link.
Ignored: view counts and the channel banner changing.
youtube.com/@channel“Only when a video is part of the linear algebra series”
You get: Just the ones matching — a busy channel stays quiet otherwise.
Ignored: community posts and shorts that don’t match.
How often it checks
Every 3 hours on Power, every 6 on Pro, once a day on Free. Where a channel’s hub notifies us sooner we pass that straight through, but the schedule is the part we promise — plan around it.
Free checks once a day at a time you pick, Pro every 6 hours, Power every 3. See the plans →
Worth knowing
- The filter reads the video’s title and description, not the video itself. “Any video where he mentions X” only works if the text says so.
- Live streams appear when they’re scheduled or when they go up, depending on the channel — not at the moment one starts.
- A channel that uploads ten times a day sends ten notifications. That’s working as intended; use a description to narrow it if you want fewer.