Video Insight

video-insight

Cross-platform video transcript extraction and optional AI summarization for YouTube and Bilibili.

Description

Extract transcripts, metadata, and optional keyframes from YouTube and Bilibili videos. Outputs structured JSON to stdout. By default, no LLM summarization is performed — the agent receives the full transcript and does its own summarization with full context window.

Supports: macOS, Linux, WSL, Windows VM.

Usage

# Single video — transcript only (default, recommended)
video-insight --url "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"
Bilibili video
video-insight --url "https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1xxxxx"
With LLM summary (opt-in)
video-insight --url "https://..." --summarize
Channel scan (recent videos)
video-insight --channel "UC_x5XG1OV2P6uZZ5FSM9Ttw" --hours 24
Quiet mode (no stderr progress)
video-insight --url "https://..." --quiet
Force refresh (ignore cache)
video-insight --url "https://..." --no-cache
Extract keyframes too
video-insight --url "https://..." --frames

Triggers

Summarize video, extract transcript, YouTube summary, Bilibili transcript, video transcript, 视频摘要, 视频总结, B站视频, YouTube视频

Output Schema

{
  "ok": true,
  "data": {
    "video_id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
    "platform": "youtube",
    "title": "Video Title",
    "channel": "Channel Name",
    "duration_seconds": 212,
    "transcript": "Full transcript text without truncation...",
    "transcript_with_timestamps": "[0.0-3.2] First segment\n[3.2-6.5] Second...",
    "frames": [{"file": "/tmp/.../frame_001.jpg", "time_sec": 30}],
    "cached": false
  },
  "error": null
}

Cache

Transcripts are permanently cached at ~/.cache/video-insight/{platform}_{video_id}.json. The .json format stores metadata + transcript together for richer cache hits (title, channel, duration, timestamps). Use --no-cache to force re-fetch.

Agent Integration Guide

1. Default workflow: Call video-insight --url , receive JSON with full transcript. Use your own LLM context to summarize — you have 128K+ tokens, no need for the script to truncate.

2. For keyframes: Add --frames flag. Only needed when the user explicitly asks for a visual/image review.

3. Long videos (2h+): The transcript may be very large. Use map-reduce or chunked summarization.

4. Bilibili videos require ffmpeg and faster-whisper (installed via setup.sh). YouTube videos typically have captions and are much faster.

5. Cron/headless: Use --summarize --quiet for automated pipelines.

Setup

cd ~/.openclaw/skills/video-insight && bash setup.sh

Dependencies

Required: yt-dlp, youtube-transcript-api, innertube, ffmpeg (system) Optional: faster-whisper (for Bilibili/captionless videos), requests (for --summarize)

# Single video — transcript only (default, recommended)
video-insight --url "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"
Bilibili video
video-insight --url "https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1xxxxx"
With LLM summary (opt-in)
video-insight --url "https://..." --summarize
Channel scan (recent videos)
video-insight --channel "UC_x5XG1OV2P6uZZ5FSM9Ttw" --hours 24
Quiet mode (no stderr progress)
video-insight --url "https://..." --quiet
Force refresh (ignore cache)
video-insight --url "https://..." --no-cache
Extract keyframes too
video-insight --url "https://..." --frames

cd ~/.openclaw/skills/video-insight && bash setup.sh