How do I ask my AI what is taking off on TikTok and YouTube?
Connect SocialToAI to your AI client over MCP, then ask in plain words. In this recorded run an AI client answered “What home coffee content is taking off on TikTok and YouTube this week?” with 2 requests on TikTok and YouTube: 116 items read in 23.5 seconds for 60 credits ($0.2). Below are the calls it made, the answer with its sources, and the prompt and API calls to run it yourself. Recorded 2026-10-18.
The question
What home coffee content is taking off on TikTok and YouTube this week?
What is taking off this week is a matter of counting: which videos on the topic were posted in the last seven days, and how many views and likes each has. Scrolling a feed shows what the feed picks for you, not those numbers side by side. Reading what this run returned by hand takes about 9 minutes (2,181 words at 240 a minute).
What the AI did
It chose the tools itself: 2 requests on TikTok and YouTube. Each row is one tool call as the client showed it, with what it sent, how much came back and what it cost.
| Platform | Tool | Sent | Requests | Returned | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TikTok | research viral_finder | query: "home coffee" · window: "7d" · scale: "small" | 1 | 59 videos | 36 |
| YouTube | research viral_finder | query: "home coffee" · window: "7d" · scale: "small" | 1 | 57 videos | 24 |
| Total | 2 | 116 items | 60 | ||
The answer
What the client answered, from what it had read. The line under each finding is a post it read, or a figure from those posts.
From 116 videos posted in the last 7 days (109 with a format the analysis could name), 15 took off (3 times the usual or more). The formats that took off most, each with its share of all the videos:
The posts it rests on
A selection of what was read; the marked words are what a finding rests on. An item without a link says so.
- TikTok · video6dFinding 1
October made me do it. 👻 Marshmallow Iced Latte Ingredients • 1 giant marshmallow • 3 oz hot water • 3 tsp instant espresso • 1 tsp
Open the source - TikTok · video38hFinding 2
Making my coffee at home is a whole experience🍁☕️ @… Kitchen #NinjaPartner #coffee #ninjaautobarista #pookie
Open the source - TikTok · video18hFinding 1
Let’s make a s’mores latte… Don’t forget to save this video. The video is the recipe@Café Bustelo @… Farms @…
Open the source - TikTok · video25hFinding 3
I’ve been drinking mold for months.. PSA ALL AT HOME COFFEE MAKERS! @… #coffee #coffeeathome #mold
Open the source - TikTok · video7dFinding 2
Setting up my home coffee bar (for now hehe) ☕️🧸🤎🕯️ what do we think?! #homecoffeebar #homecoffee #decoratewithme #homed
Open the source
What it cost
2 requests, 60 credits in total: $0.2 at the $10 rate. Every answer of the API states the credits it charged and the balance left, so your AI can tell you what a question cost. A call that fails costs nothing.
| Pack | Credits per dollar | This answer |
|---|---|---|
| $10 = 3,000 credits | 300 | $0.2 |
| $50 = 20,000 credits | 400 | $0.15 |
| $200 = 100,000 credits | 500 | $0.12 |
Ask it yourself
Connect SocialToAI to your AI client once (the steps for each client), then paste the question. You do not name tools or parameters: the client picks them.
What home coffee content is taking off on TikTok and YouTube this week?The same in code: the calls this run made, as requests to the API.
What to try next
- Ask next: “Show me the top 5 videos”
- Ask next: “Check again next week”
- Change the topic to your own niche, and “this week” to “this month” for slower topics.
- Ask which formats were common a month ago and are missing now.
- Ask it to read the comments under the top three videos and say what viewers ask for.
- Run it as one request with the ready-made tool Viral finder: Posts on a subject that did clearly better than their authors usually do, on one platform.
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