YouTube Watcher

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name: youtube-watcher description: 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. author: michael gathara version: 1.0.0 triggers: - "watch youtube" - "summarize video" - "video transcript" - "youtube summary" - "analyze video" metadata: {"clawdbot":{"emoji":"📺","requires":{"bins":["yt-dlp"]},"install":[{"id":"brew","kind":"brew","formula":"yt-dlp","bins":["yt-dlp"],"label":"Install yt-dlp (brew)"},{"id":"pip","kind":"pip","package":"yt-dlp","bins":["yt-dlp"],"label":"Install yt-dlp (pip)"}]}}

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YouTube Watcher

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:

1. Get the transcript:

   python3 {baseDir}/scripts/get_transcript.py "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
   

2. Read the output and summarize it for the user.

Find specific information:

1. Get the transcript. 2. Search the text for keywords or answer the user's question based on the content.

Notes

Requires yt-dlp to 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.

Summarize a video:

1. Get the transcript:

   python3 {baseDir}/scripts/get_transcript.py "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
   

2. Read the output and summarize it for the user.

Find specific information:

1. Get the transcript. 2. Search the text for keywords or answer the user's question based on the content.

Requires yt-dlp to 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.