Openclaw-master-skills 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.

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/LeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/LeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/youtube-watcher" ~/.claude/skills/leoyeai-openclaw-master-skills-youtube-watcher && rm -rf "$T"

OpenClaw · Install into ~/.openclaw/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/LeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.openclaw/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/youtube-watcher" ~/.openclaw/skills/leoyeai-openclaw-master-skills-youtube-watcher && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: skills/youtube-watcher/SKILL.md

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.