youtube

⚠Review·Scanned 2/18/2026

This skill provides YouTube search, video/channel details, and transcript extraction via an MCP server and yt-dlp. It instructs running shell commands such as mcporter call, git clone, and yt-dlp, requires the YOUTUBE_API_KEY, and makes network calls to googleapis.com and github.com.

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YouTube 📹

YouTube research and transcription skill for Clawdbot.

Features

  • 📹 Video Details - Get title, description, stats, publish date
  • 📝 Transcripts - Extract transcripts with timestamps
  • 📺 Channel Info - Get channel details and recent videos
  • 🔍 Search - Find videos by keywords
  • 🎬 Playlist Info - Get playlist details

Installation

clawdhub install youtube

Configuration

Get a YouTube API key from Google Cloud Console:

  1. Create a project
  2. Enable YouTube Data API v3
  3. Create credentials → API Key
export YOUTUBE_API_KEY="your-api-key"

Or add to ~/.clawdbot/clawdbot.json:

{
  "skills": {
    "entries": {
      "youtube": {
        "apiKey": "AIzaSy..."
      }
    }
  }
}

Usage Examples

"Find the latest Lex Fridman podcast episode"
"Get the transcript for this video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z-FRe5AKmCU"
"Search YouTube for Laravel tutorials"
"Show me recent videos from channel UCSHZKyawb77ixDdsGog4iWA"
"Get video details for Z-FRe5AKmCU"

Credits

This skill uses the youtube-mcp-server by Zubeid Hendricks for YouTube Data API integration.

License

MIT