Public-data discovery
Runs bounded searches across a configured niche taxonomy and preserves the exact query, result rank, run, request, timestamp, and subject-family evidence.
Internal research tool
Niche Lab
A private, local research tool used by one individual to study YouTube niches, topics, videos, channels, and content opportunities for his own channel.
Current status
Phase 1 complete. Protected analytics disabled.
Permission state:
not_requested. YOUTUBE_ANALYTICS_REPORTING_APPROVED=false.
What the tool does today
Metadata enrichment
Retrieves current public video and channel metadata, applies exact duration and publication-window filters, and records freshness and retention dates.
Auditable inventory
Deduplicates canonical videos without deleting discovery provenance and produces descriptive, source-labeled reports for one operator.
Phase 1 evidence
The completed collection stage sampled 42 candidate niches and 126 subject families. It produced a reproducible inventory without selecting or ranking a niche.
6,254discovery relationships
5,858unique canonical videos
1,946exact recent 4-30 minute candidates
Requested future scope
Niche Lab intends to request written acceptance for a narrow internal Analytics and reporting use case. Subject to the exact accepted scope, future work may include transparent YouTube-only comparative ratios, breakout research, repeated statistics and velocity, custom research scores, approved categorization, and limited clearly labeled projections.
None of those protected capabilities is currently implemented or enabled.
An environment variable cannot unlock them by itself. A current evidence-backed permission record with the exact accepted capability scope is also required.
Policies and reviewer materials
Privacy policy
Data categories, storage, refresh/deletion, third parties, and current no-account/no-tracking state.
Terms of use
Narrow terms for the current internal research tool and this public disclosure site.
YouTube API disclosure
Current endpoints, public data use, retention, requested future scope, and disabled capabilities.
Application reviewers can use the reviewer information page for the implemented flow, current controls, and evidence checklist.
Operator and contact
Niche Lab is operated by Kasparas Marcinskas as an individual/private person. It is not a company, SaaS business, commercial product, or service for customers. It has one user and no customers.
Contact: marcinskas.kasparas@gmail.com
No custom domain is used. The public version of this compliance site is hosted at the HTTPS Cloudflare Pages address shown in the browser.