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youtube-watcher

Fetch and read transcripts from YouTube videos.

Skill by CraftOS-dev

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Works with Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, VS Code, OpenCode, Goose, Windsurf. Read the repository before you give any tool access to your data.

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About

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.

Use cases: writing

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What this skill can do and what it asks for, from its SKILL.md and code. Checked Oct 25, 2026.

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Runs as
Python package

Network hosts it talks to 2

  • clawhub.ai · found in code
  • codeload.github.com · found in install command

Files it touches

  • ~/.claude/skills/youtube-watcher

What's inside

Skill name
youtube-watcher
Description
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.
License
MIT
Instructions
36 lines in SKILL.md · view on GitHub

Before installing

  • Ships executable scripts

Files (4)

  • origin.json · .clawhub/
  • SKILL.md
  • _meta.json
  • get_transcript.py · scripts/

SKILL.md (first lines)

# YouTube Watcher

Fetch transcripts from YouTube videos to enable summarization, QA, and content extraction.

## Usage

### Get Transcript

Retrieve the text transcript of a video.

```bash
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/get_transcript.py "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"
```

## Examples

**Summarize a video:**

1. Get the transcript:
   ```bash
   python3 {baseDir}/scripts/get_transcript.py "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
   ```
2. Read the output and summarize it for the user.

**Find specific information:**

1. Get the transcript.
2. 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.

From CraftOS-dev/CraftBot, MIT.

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Stars
400
Forks
49
Open issues
12
Last commit (this folder)
May 28, 2026 (5 months ago)
Last release
Oct 23, 2026 (5 days ago)

From GitHub (fetched Oct 24, 2026).

Details

License
MIT
Repository
github.com/CraftOS-dev/CraftBot
Website
craftbot.live/
First seen
Oct 24, 2026
Last checked
Oct 24, 2026
Source
GitHubgithub-graphql

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youtube-watcher skill. Agent Mart. https://agentmart.dev/skills/craftos-dev-youtube-watcher (last updated 2026-10-24)