Youtube Watcher Agent Skill
Fetch and read transcripts from YouTube videos. Use when you need to summarize a video, answer questions about its content, or extract information from it.
Install
one command, takes just this skill from the repositorynpx skills add https://github.com/gooseworks-ai/goose-skills --skill youtube-watcherWhat comes with it
2 567 bytes besides the instructionThe instruction itself
5 sections, as written by the authorYouTube Watcher
Fetch transcripts from YouTube videos to enable summarization, QA, and content extraction.
Usage
Get Transcript
Retrieve the text transcript of a video.
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/get_transcript.py "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"
Examples
Summarize a video:
- Get the transcript:
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/get_transcript.py "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
- Read the output and summarize it for the user.
Find specific information:
- Get the transcript.
- Search the text for keywords or answer the user's question based on the content.
Notes
- Requires
yt-dlpto be installed and available in the PATH. - Works with videos that have closed captions (CC) or auto-generated subtitles.
- If a video has no subtitles, the script will fail with an error message.
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How to use it
Take gooseworks-ai/youtube-watcher from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal
use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.
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