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YouTube Watcher enables agents to fetch and read transcripts from YouTube videos, making video content accessible for summarization, question-answering, and analysis. Instead of watching a 30-minute video, your agent can extract the full transcript in seconds and work with it as structured text.

Key Features

Transcript extraction from any YouTube video with closed captions or auto-generated subtitles using the yt-dlp utility
Clean text output that converts raw subtitle data into readable, plain text format suitable for further processing
Multiple trigger phrases including "watch youtube," "summarize video," "video transcript," "youtube summary," and "analyze video"
Minimal dependencies — requires only yt-dlp installed in the system PATH, no additional API keys or configuration
Stdout output for easy piping into downstream analysis, summarization, or storage workflows

Use Cases

Summarizing conference talks, tutorials, or educational videos without watching them in real time
Extracting key information and quotes from interview or podcast video content
Building research workflows that include video content alongside text sources
Creating written notes or documentation from instructional video content

How It Works

The skill executes a Python script that invokes yt-dlp to download subtitle tracks from the specified YouTube video into a temporary directory. It then processes the raw subtitle data — stripping timestamps, formatting tags, and duplicate lines — into clean, continuous text output. The transcript is printed to stdout, making it available for the agent to summarize, search, or analyze.

Getting Started

Install yt-dlp via your preferred package manager —

brew install yt-dlp

on macOS or

pip install yt-dlp

as a cross-platform alternative. Once yt-dlp is available in your PATH, the skill is ready to use. Provide a YouTube URL and the skill handles transcript extraction automatically. Note that transcript quality depends on the availability and accuracy of the video's captions.

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