// Search for videos, extract metadata, retrieve transcripts, and fetch comments from YouTube. Use when analyzing video content for research, summarizing long-form content, or gathering information from YouTube URLs.
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| name | youtube-cli |
| description | Search for videos, extract metadata, retrieve transcripts, and fetch comments from YouTube. Use when analyzing video content for research, summarizing long-form content, or gathering information from YouTube URLs. |
This skill uses yt-dlp to fetch metadata (title, uploader, views, duration, likes, optional comments) and youtube-transcript-api to retrieve captions for a YouTube video. It also includes search functionality via yt-dlp.
skills/youtube-cli/scripts/search.py.python skills/youtube-cli/scripts/search.py "<query>" [flags]--limit <N>, --json, --output (-o).--json for raw JSON and --output <path> to save to file.skills/youtube-cli/scripts/video.py.python skills/youtube-cli/scripts/video.py <video_id> [flags]python skills/youtube-cli/scripts/video.py --url "<youtube_url>" [flags]--title, --uploader, --duration, --views, --likes, --transcript, --description, --comments, --json, --output (-o).title, uploader, duration, views.skills/youtube-cli/scripts/search.py via the terminal. Run python skills/youtube-cli/scripts/search.py --help for usage details.skills/youtube-cli/scripts/video.py via the terminal. Run python skills/youtube-cli/scripts/video.py --help for usage details.--output flag to save the data to a file rather than printing to the terminal to avoid truncation.yt-dlp or dependency issues.video_id or --url; do not pass a URL as positional text with extra unsupported flags.--output flag.search.py to identify the most relevant videos.video.py on the top results to extract metadata and assess relevance before extracting full transcripts.