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.
Michael Gathara
@michaelgathara
What This Skill Does
Fetches text transcripts from YouTube videos using yt-dlp. Supports videos with closed captions or auto-generated subtitles.
Replaces manually watching or scrubbing through videos to extract text content for summarization, Q&A, or information retrieval.
When to Use It
- Summarize a long YouTube video into key points
- Answer a specific question based on a video's spoken content
- Extract quotes or data from a tutorial or lecture video
- Create a written record of a video for note-taking or reference
- Search a video's transcript for keywords or topics
Install
$ openclaw skills install @michaelgathara/youtube-watcherYouTube 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-dlpto 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.
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