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Creator Magic
Hermes Agent Found My Next Video (No Human)
⏱ 10 min video · 2 min read15 Jun 2026Worth watching
TL;DR
Creator Mike demonstrates a zero-code workflow where his Hermes AI agent (running locally on a Mac Studio) automatically scrapes Reddit via Apify, enriches results with live trend data from a Trends MCP, and pushes polished entries directly into a Notion board — all triggered from a Telegram message. This solves the problem of research getting lost in chat history and eliminates hours of manual video topic research.
Key points
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Hermes agent (free, open-source, 32B parameter local AI) is connected to Apify via API key inside Telegram, allowing natural-language commands to trigger Reddit scraping without any code
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Apify now supports MCP connectors natively — including a Trends MCP that scores Reddit posts against live data from Google Search, YouTube, TikTok, X, Amazon, and Wikipedia simultaneously
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A Notion MCP connector in Apify outputs enriched Reddit post data directly to a specified Notion page, one entry per post, with trend heat scores and keyword breakdowns
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The entire workflow is packaged as a reusable 'skill' inside Hermes by pasting the Apify JSON config — so future requests like 'get YouTube video ideas from r/Claude' run the full pipeline automatically
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Trends MCP is free for 100 requests per month; Hermes agent is fully free and open-source; Apify offers free credits via the link in the description
Actionable insights
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Connect Apify to your Hermes agent by pasting your Apify API key directly into the Telegram chat — no code required
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In your Apify actor settings, add the Trends MCP as an enrichment connector (free tier: 100 requests/month) and Notion MCP as an output connector to automatically push ranked topic ideas to Notion
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Save the Apify actor JSON config and paste it into Hermes as a named skill so you can trigger the entire research-to-Notion pipeline with a single natural-language prompt in future
Notable quotes
“By the time I have finished researching, I am just too tired to film most of the time.”
“I can literally say get YouTube video ideas from a certain subreddit and Hermes handles the rest.”
“It gets live trend data for your AI — not only is it finding the posts on Reddit, but it is finding if those posts are actually trending right now on meaningful platforms.”
Worth watching?
✅
Worth watching the full video?
Watch if you want to see the exact click-by-click setup — the live demo of Notion populating in real time is genuinely impressive, but the key steps and free tool links are all captured here.
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