The Scenario
You're the brand manager for a company with a YouTube channel that's getting a full homepage redesign. The design agency asked for a documentation snapshot of the current channel layout — every section on the homepage, its type, its display title, and its position order — before they propose changes. Nobody on the team knows where to find this information. YouTube Studio does not show channel sections in a structured, exportable format.
The bad version:
- Open the YouTube channel page in a browser while logged in, count the visible sections, note the type (single playlist, multiple playlists, featured video) for each one
- Write the titles down by hand, try to infer the position order from top to bottom
- Realize the channel layout looks different when logged in versus when logged out, and the design agency will view it as a visitor, not as the owner
- Send the design agency a screenshot instead of a structured data file, and spend 30 minutes on a call explaining what each section is
The design agency needs a data file, not a screenshot, to build their proposal.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent inside your Google Sheet. It reads your channel section configuration from the YouTube API and writes each section as a structured row in your sheet.
List all sections on my YouTube channel homepage and write them into this sheet with section ID, display type, title, and position order
What You Get
- One row per channel section
- Column A: section ID (internal YouTube identifier)
- Column B: display type (e.g. singlePlaylist, multipleChannels, featuredVideo, verticalChannelSection)
- Column C: section title as it appears on the channel page
- Column D: position number (0-indexed, top to bottom)
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
The design agency also needs to know which playlist is associated with each playlist-type section
List all sections on my YouTube channel homepage — write section ID, display type, title, and position into this sheet — then for any section of type singlePlaylist or multipleChannels, add the associated playlist ID or channel ID in column E
You want to output the sections in a format ready to paste into the design brief
List all sections on my YouTube channel homepage and write them into this sheet with position, title, and display type — then create a plain-text summary in cell G1 describing the layout from top to bottom as a bulleted list, using the title and type for each section
You want to compare the current layout against a proposed layout in a second tab
List all sections on my YouTube channel homepage into Sheet1 with section ID, display type, title, and position — then compare the position and title of each section against the ProposedLayout tab and highlight any differences in column E
You want a complete snapshot including section-level video or playlist counts
List all sections on my YouTube channel homepage — write section ID, display type, title, and position into this sheet — then for each section associated with a playlist, fetch the playlist item count and write it to column E, so the design agency knows the content volume behind each section
One prompt. Full layout snapshot with content depth, ready for the design brief.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open a blank Google Sheet — ask SheetXAI to export your full channel section layout and you'll have a structured data file for the design agency within minutes. See also auditing all channel playlists or the YouTube hub.