youtube

Name: youtube
Author: cowork-os

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About youtube

youtube is a skill for retrieving YouTube transcripts, captions, and metadata, then organizing video content. It supports tasks such as summaries, timestamped quotes, and multilingual caption handling.

Key features

01Retrieve captions and transcripts
02Read video metadata
03Create summaries and key points
04Extract timestamped quotes
05Handle multilingual captions and translation

Use cases

01Summarize a YouTube video
02Answer questions about video content
03Compare multiple videos
04Extract quotes with timestamps

Install

Copy the command and run it in a terminal.

$npx skills add https://github.com/cowork-os/cowork-os --skill youtube

After installing, type/youtubein Claude Code to confirm it loaded.

Bundled filesreferences/full-guidance.mdscripts/.gitkeep

Details

From the project README

YouTube

Purpose

Fetch transcripts, metadata, and captions from YouTube videos. Use when you need to summarize a video, answer questions about its content, extract key points, compare videos, or pull quotes with timestamps. Supports auto-generated and manual captions, multiple languages, and translation.

Routing

Use when: User shares a YouTube link, asks to summarize a video, wants to know what a video says, asks to extract information from a YouTube video, or needs video transcripts
Do not use when: User wants to upload or stream video, manage a YouTube channel, or edit video files
Outputs: Video transcripts with timestamps, summaries, key quotes, metadata, chapter breakdowns
Success criteria: User receives accurate transcript content with timestamps and clear formatting

Trigger Examples

Positive

Use the youtube skill for this request.
Help me with youtube.
User shares a YouTube link, asks to summarize a video, wants to know what a video says, asks to extract information from a YouTube video, or needs video transcripts
YouTube: provide an actionable result.

Negative

User wants to upload or stream video, manage a YouTube channel, or edit video files
Do not use youtube for unrelated requests.
This request is outside youtube scope.
This is conceptual discussion only; no tool workflow is needed.

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
url	string	No	YouTube video URL or video ID

Runtime Prompt

Current runtime prompt length: 821 characters.
Runtime prompt is defined directly in ../youtube.json.

Comments

Markdown supported

Details

Author: cowork-os
Repository: cowork-os/cowork-os
Category: Productivity
Installs: 69
GitHub stars: 517

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