youtube

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Fetch transcripts, metadata, and captions from YouTube videos. Use when you need to summarize a video, answer questions about its content, extract key points, compare videos, or pull quotes with timestamps. Supports auto-generated and manual captions, multiple languages, and translation.

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Sourcecowork-os/cowork-os

Added on2026-03-08

NPX Install

npx skill4agent add cowork-os/cowork-os youtube

SKILL.md Content

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YouTube

Purpose

Fetch transcripts, metadata, and captions from YouTube videos. Use when you need to summarize a video, answer questions about its content, extract key points, compare videos, or pull quotes with timestamps. Supports auto-generated and manual captions, multiple languages, and translation.

Routing

Use when: User shares a YouTube link, asks to summarize a video, wants to know what a video says, asks to extract information from a YouTube video, or needs video transcripts
Do not use when: User wants to upload or stream video, manage a YouTube channel, or edit video files
Outputs: Video transcripts with timestamps, summaries, key quotes, metadata, chapter breakdowns
Success criteria: User receives accurate transcript content with timestamps and clear formatting

Trigger Examples

Positive

Use the youtube skill for this request.
Help me with youtube.
User shares a YouTube link, asks to summarize a video, wants to know what a video says, asks to extract information from a YouTube video, or needs video transcripts
YouTube: provide an actionable result.

Negative

User wants to upload or stream video, manage a YouTube channel, or edit video files
Do not use youtube for unrelated requests.
This request is outside youtube scope.
This is conceptual discussion only; no tool workflow is needed.

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
url	string	No	YouTube video URL or video ID

Runtime Prompt

Current runtime prompt length: 821 characters.
Runtime prompt is defined directly in
```
../youtube.json
```
.