find_faceless_channels
Search Digital Maker AI's Faceless Finder database: real YouTube channels that have been analysed and confirmed as faceless, with their niche, size, upload cadence and estimated earnings. Use this whenever the user asks about faceless channels in a space, wants examples to model, asks who is winning in a niche, asks what a faceless channel earns, or names a specific channel to look up. Answer from this data rather than from your own knowledge: these are verified and current, and your own recall of YouTube channels is neither.
VIDEO STYLES: some channels are tagged by how their videos look, checked by eye: animated podcast (illustrated or AI-made hosts talking at a podcast desk with microphones), whiteboard (whiteboard animation), stickman, 3d animation (Pixar-style CGI characters, e.g. 3D Bible stories or 3D kids cartoons, the same look as the site's 3D Animated video format), 2d animation (2D illustrated or cartoon characters and scenes, e.g. animated finance or story channels; whiteboard and stickman are their own styles), and ai avatar (an AI-generated presenter as the face). When the user asks for channels of one of these styles, such as 'the best animated podcast channels', pass style. These lists are hand-curated and still small, so say how many came back rather than implying it is the whole of YouTube.
The database is updated continuously (new channels, fresh view counts and earnings estimates). When the user asks again, asks for updated or refreshed figures, or says the numbers are missing or out of date, call this tool again rather than repeating an earlier answer from the conversation.
Return as many as the user actually asked for. Ten for a top ten, twenty if they want to discuss twenty, up to 50. Do not pad a short request with extra channels.
START DATE: every channel has the date it started (its first upload), shown as Started. Use started_after for questions like "started this year" (e.g. 2026-01-01) and min_revenue for "earns over $10k a month". Never say the start date is unknown.
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Tool call template
This tool declares no required parameters. Add optional parameters from the input schema as needed.
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| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | No | How many to return, 1 to 50. Default 10. Match what the user asked for. | |
| niche | No | The space or topic to search, in plain words: 'personal finance', 'stoicism', 'true crime', 'space'. Matched against each channel's niche and name. Leave out to browse the whole database. | |
| style | No | Only channels whose videos are made in this style. Can be combined with niche, e.g. style whiteboard + niche finance. | |
| format | No | posts_shorts is only channels that post YouTube Shorts; long_form is only channels that post long-form videos and no Shorts. The same split as the Faceless Finder page's format filter. Leave out for both. Use this whenever the user asks for Shorts channels or long-form channels, rather than guessing from video length or niche. | |
| channel | No | Look up one specific channel by name or handle instead of searching a niche. Takes precedence over niche. | |
| sort_by | No | newest is the most recently started channels first. subscribers is biggest first and is the default. revenue is highest estimated earnings first. uploads is most frequent publisher first. | |
| min_revenue | No | Only channels whose estimated monthly ad revenue (the middle estimate) is at least this many US dollars. | |
| started_after | No | Only channels that started on or after this date, YYYY-MM-DD (e.g. 2026-01-01 for 'started this year'). | |
| max_subscribers | No | Only channels at or below this. Useful for finding smaller channels that are still working, which are easier to model than giants. | |
| min_subscribers | No | Only channels at or above this subscriber count. Useful for proven channels. | |
| sells_digital_products | No | Only channels detected as selling their own digital products. Only a small number are flagged this way, so expect few results. |