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All right, guys. In this video, I'm going to show you how you can use Claude Code to model any trending YouTube channel in just a few steps.
Now, normally you see a new niche that's taking off, and you're interested in starting something similar. But the challenge is that you have no idea how to create good prompts that can get you similar results, get you the same style of topics, scripts, images, or even thumbnails they're using. So, the only options you're left with are to attempt using Notebook LM to reverse engineer these channels, which doesn't work based on personal experience. Or you wait for faceless content creators like this guy to finally create tutorials about that niche and provide the much-needed full set of prompts.
However, this strategy has a few flaws, as you end up waiting too long for these tutorials to drop. And even when it finally drops, everyone else enters the same niche at the same time, which means more competition for you. So, what's the best way around this? Well, you need a stress-free way to create these prompts and model the channels yourself. This way, you can actually get ahead of the competition and start before everyone else.
Now, this has been one of the most requested videos from my viewers, as people genuinely want to learn how to do this themselves. However, I couldn't create a video on it as it required a lot of technical knowledge. But fortunately, Claude AI's recent advancements have made Claude Code so powerful that it's actually possible to model any channel in a few steps. And the best part is that you don't need to know how to code or have some badass mastery of prompt engineering. That's how advanced AI has gotten, and it's exactly what I'm going to walk you through in this video.
So, the first thing we're going to need is a Claude AI account. If you don't have one, make sure you go to claude.ai and sign up for an account. However, you need to understand that although Claude AI is free to use, Claude Code is only available in one of their paid tiers. So, you may need a subscription to use this feature. But if you're serious about a particular niche and want to invest in it, it's definitely worth it. And even if you're not ready to spend on it just yet, you can still follow along with this video. This process might give you some useful ideas, so stick with me.
Now, once you have your Claude account, you also need to download a couple of tools. The first one is Visual Studio Code, or in short, VS Code. Simply go to Google and search for VS Code. Normally, that should show up at the top of the search results. No need to worry about payment, as it's an open-source code editor. So, download the one for your specific operating system. The file size for the current Windows version is about 135 MB, so it shouldn't take too long. Once download is complete, click the pop-up to begin the installation process. You only need to accept the license agreement when prompted and just keep clicking next and then install to complete the process.
Now, another tool you're going to need is NodeJS. Go back to Google and type NodeJS. Choose this link to go directly to the download page, and you should have the installer for your operating system right there. The installation process is the same as the first one. So, go through to the end before installing the next tool, which is Git. Download and install that as well for your operating system. And you're only left with the last tool, which is Python. This one is actually optional, so you can choose to skip it, but I recommend installing it as it's necessary for the last step in the process we'll be going through. You'll understand why it may be necessary later in this video.
Now, once you're done with all of these downloads and installations, go ahead and launch VS Code. This is the interface you're greeted with. You'll see a bunch of icons on the left: Explorer, Outline, Timeline, and then the settings and profile icons at the bottom. You don't need to worry about any of that. What you need to do now is make sure Claude Code is installed inside VS Code. Move to the extensions icon on the sidebar and search for Claude Code. It's going to be the one from Anthropic. Click it and then hit install. It may take a moment to complete, but once it's installed, you'll notice a new Claude Code icon has been added to the icons on the sidebar. You should see it appear at the top right as well. This shows that it's successfully been added to VS Code.
Now, if you click on it, it will give you a login option. For the login, make sure you use the claude.ai AI subscription option. The other options, like this one that requires an API key, are for developers. So, you don't need to worry about those. Just select the subscription option and it will ask you to authorize. Go ahead and do that, and you should be logged into Claude Code.
Now, what you're going to do is create a new project. Close any open tabs and go to the Explorer icon on the left. What you want to do is create a new folder on your computer. It's going to contain every file that you may create for the project. The location doesn't really matter, so feel free to create it anywhere you want. In this case, I'm simply going to name mine niche model. Once your folder is ready, simply drag it inside VS Code. And as you can see, the niche model folder is now open inside the app. We're now working inside that folder.
Next, you need to create one simple file. If you hover over these icons, you'll notice what they do. This one is for a new file, and the next one is a new folder. The only thing you're going to do is to create a new file. So, click the new file icon next to the folder name and type the name of the file. You can name it whatever you want. I'm going to name mine niche clone. The most important thing is that you add the MD extension at the end with no spaces. So, it should be whatever name you've chosen, MD, and hit enter. This will create a markdown file inside your folder. The file should open automatically once it's created.
Then, the next thing you want to do is to go to this Google Doc that I'm going to be posting inside my Discord and school communities. The links to both communities should be in the video description as well as in the pinned comment. Once you're there, select everything inside by pressing Ctrl + A. Make sure you've copied it and go back to VS Code. Paste it directly into the file that you just created and press Ctrl + S to save it. What you copied is just a set of instructions that tells the AI exactly what steps to follow, so it can deliver exactly what you need. Right now, you're only going to use it as is without any changes. But in case you want to tweak something in the future, feel free to give it a shot once you have a better understanding of how it works.
If you look at the flow system inside the file, you'll see it has multiple states. State one is the channel link, then transcripts, topic ideas, analysis, style, and so on. There are 14 states in total for the entire process.
Now, here's where the real work starts. Go to the Claude Code icon here and click on it. Don't type anything complicated. Just type start and hit enter. What it's going to do is read the file. And as you can see, it says it read the file. Then the first thing it tells you is this is a YouTube Content Engine workflow. I'll begin by executing state one. And state one is asking you to provide the YouTube channel link.
So, the first step is to provide the link to the channel you want to model. Just for the sake of this demonstration, I'm going to use this Bible channel that's been blowing up recently, a channel called Bible Undefeated. This channel has been posting for less than a year, and they already have over 150,000 subscribers. Their videos are doing really well, too. This recent one has 115,000 views and their most popular video has 1.7 million views, which is incredible. So, we'll be using this channel for our demo. We're going to try modeling their niche, their style, starting from the kinds of topics they choose all the way to the thumbnails. So, copy the channel link, paste it into Claude Code, and hit enter.
Now, it's moved to state two, and it's asking you to provide two to three full video transcripts from that channel. So, you need to follow that instruction. Just to be clear, you're not going to copy their content. This is not a tutorial to help you steal someone's content. You're just going to train the AI on their style, which includes their narration style, the kind of topics they cover, the writing structure. That's all this is for. For the transcripts, I recommend going with their most popular videos. That way, you're training the AI on content that actually performed well, and their audience also genuinely responded positively, too. This video is a day old and already has 115,000 views, so I'll include that one in addition to two of their most popular videos.
What you need to do is open a blank Word document. Type the title and transcript for each video. Just format it as topic followed by the title, then transcript followed by the content, and leave a few blank lines before the next one. Do that for all three. Once you have all three transcripts in, select all, copy everything. Go back to Claude Code and paste them directly into the chat. You don't need to attach a file. Just paste them right in.
Now, the AI is going to take a few seconds to analyze those transcripts. It's going through the topics, the narration style, the hooks, and every detail of how the content is written. Once it's done, it's going to ask you whether you want to generate video ideas based on the channel style or whether you already have a specific topic in mind. If you want the AI to generate the topics for you, just tell it to do that. I'll simply say, generate 25 video ideas and hit enter.
As you can see, it shows some details about the style based on the earlier analysis, really making sure it understands the writing style, the hooks, the script structure, and then it generates 25 video ideas. Topics like "Signs God is about to promote you," "Stop praying like this. It's blocking your breakthrough." I mean, these are really interesting topics. And as you can see, they're in the exact same style as the samples we gave. Some have hyphens in the middle, some have numbers at the beginning. It's all matching the channel's format quite closely.
Once you have the 25 topics, the AI is going to ask you which one you'd like to move forward with. You can go with whichever one resonates with you. I'm going to go with number six. "God is removing these people from your life on purpose." So, I'll just type six and hit enter. And again, this works with any niche. The AI is just learning the style and structure of whatever channel you feed it. And then it creates something similar for you. Not a copy, but something in that same style. Topics, scripts, images, thumbnails, the whole thing.
For the selected topic, Claude Code is going to generate the full script for that. And the target word count is 900 words with an approximate 5% margin. The reason it's using 900 words as the target is that it took the average word count from the three transcripts we gave it and used that as the baseline. So, it's tailoring even the length to match the channel style. And the script is pretty solid. "Joseph's brothers threw him in a pit, sold him to strangers, left him for dead, and God used every single one of those betrayals to position him for a throne." It goes through the whole thing and at the end, it confirms the final word count, which is within that 5% target margin.
Now, it's moved on to stage seven and it's asking you to upload three to five sample video images from that channel. Not thumbnails, but actual footage screenshots from inside the videos. The reason for this is that the AI wants to make sure it's sticking to the same visual style the channel uses rather than just creating some random image style. So, it's going to train on those images and then create prompts that match that aesthetic. Go to that channel's videos, open a couple of them, take screenshots of some of the scenes, come back here, attach them to the chat, type something like "images attached," and hit enter.
The AI will analyze those images and use that analysis to create detailed image prompts for your entire script. And as you can see, it's created a visual profile. The art style is described as semi-realistic illustrated storybook, not full cartoon, not full realism, clean. It's identified the color palette, the lighting style, the camera composition, that kind of thing. It's done a full breakdown of the visual style and then it moves on to generating image prompts for every beat of the script. For the first line, "Joseph's brothers threw him in a pit, sold him to strangers, left him for dead," there's an image prompt generated for exactly that moment. And it includes camera angle, lighting, mood, and action. It does that for every single part of the story all the way through. It's not going to miss a single beat. And like I said, this works for any niche, cinematic style, nature, whatever you're working with. It generates prompts specifically tailored to that visual style.
Now, before we move on to the next step, let me quickly test some of these image prompts and show you the kind of results you can expect. I'm going to use Flow for this. And as you can see, the results look really good. The images are consistent with the style we trained it on, and they work well for narration style videos.
Now, let's head back to Claude Code. At the bottom, it says for state 10, "Do you want to create video prompts for the image prompts?" In the case of the channel we're modeling, they're not animating their videos, they're just using static images. But if the niche you're modeling requires some kind of animation, you're going to need video prompts for that. So, if your niche doesn't require animation, just say no. But if it does, just say yes, and Claude Code will go ahead and generate video prompts for every single image prompt it created. And as you can see, it's generating them now, including the corresponding script text for each one, so you always know which video prompt matches which part of the narration.
Once that's done, it moves to the next state and asks you to upload two to three thumbnail images from that channel. Same process as before. Go to the channel, grab thumbnails, paste the links into a tool, and upload them. Note that we're not copying their thumbnails. We're simply using these to train the AI on the exact thumbnail style the channel is using. Add something simple like this. And what happens is that the AI is going to analyze the thumbnail style and then create multiple thumbnail concepts for your specific topic. Not just one, but several options for you to choose from. It starts by doing a full thumbnail profile breakdown, text placement, text color, composition, everything. And then it moves on to creating the actual thumbnail concepts.
So, now we have five thumbnails, all for our topic. Five separate unique thumbnail options. Let's see the kind of results that the AI will give us. As you can see, these look great. This one has a character leaving people behind. This one has a hand separating the character from a group. This one also has a similar departure theme. They're all really strong options. The texts are also on point. The composition is on point and they match the style of the channel. You could honestly take any one of these and post it directly without needing to edit anything.
Now, at this point, you can stop here without needing to go further once you have your thumbnails, but it's advisable to export everything into a Word document, and that's where you need to have Python installed. Claude Code will need that to compile the relevant information into a Word document. If you look at the bottom of the thumbnail prompts, you'll notice the last state, which is 14. Here it says, "Do you want me to export everything into a Word document? Topics, script, image prompts, video prompts, thumbnails, all of it." Just type yes, and Claude Code will export everything into a well-formatted Word document for you so nothing gets lost.
If you're prompted to choose from options like these, simply click yes whenever the prompt appears. It may take a moment the first time, but once it's done, you'll see a notification that your Word document has been exported and saved along with the file name and location. It'll tell you the document contains four sections. Section one is the 25 video ideas with number six marked as selected. Section two is the full script with word count and pacing info. Section three is all 36 image prompts paired with the video prompts beat by beat. And section four is all five thumbnail concepts with style-matched prompts.
Now, if you look in your project folder, the niche model folder, you'll see the Word document has been saved right there alongside the niche clone.md file. Double-click it and it opens up fully formatted. The channel name is there. The sections are nicely formatted. The selected topic is highlighted. The script is there with the word count, image prompts, video prompts, and thumbnail concepts all the way to the bottom. It even combined the image and video prompts under their script section rather than repeating them separately, which is a smart move that makes the document a lot cleaner to work with.
Just like that, you can repeat this process to model any niche that you want to jump into. And as you can see, the process is quite simple. You don't write a single line of code, just paste the instructions, and the AI does all the hard work. So, go ahead and test this out with whatever niche you're interested in, and let me know how it works for you. Anyway, if you found this helpful, don't forget to hit the like and subscribe button. Thank you and see you in the next.