Youtube Watcher

gooseworks-ai/youtube-watcher

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.

1k tokens

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the whole folder, loaded on every use

files

ships runnable scripts

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

1086

stars on the repo

on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/gooseworks-ai/goose-skills --skill youtube-watcher

What comes with it

2 567 bytes besides the instruction

scripts/get_transcript.py

skill.meta.json

The instruction itself

5 sections, as written by the author

YouTube 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-dlp to 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.

How to use it

Copy the folder

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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