Yt Digest

What This Skill Does

Yt Digest is a specialized OpenClaw skill designed to bridge the gap between long-form video content and rapid information consumption. By leveraging YouTube's transcript API, this tool extracts, processes, and refines the audio data from any public YouTube video. Whether you are conducting research, learning new programming frameworks, or catching up on news, Yt Digest allows you to skip the manual scrubbing of videos by providing structured summaries, full text transcripts, and automated chapter segmentation directly within your workspace.

Installation

To integrate Yt Digest into your OpenClaw environment, execute the following command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/0xraini/yt-digest Ensure you have the latest version of OpenClaw installed to maintain compatibility with the underlying transcript parsing logic.

Use Cases

• Educational Research: Quickly gather key takeaways from university lectures or technical tutorials without watching the entire duration.
• Content Curation: Generate accurate summaries for newsletters or internal team knowledge bases based on trending industry videos.
• Accessibility: Convert spoken video content into searchable, readable text format for users who prefer reading over watching.
• Rapid Prototyping: Use the 'analyze' feature to verify if a video contains the specific technical documentation you need before investing time in watching.

Example Prompts

1. "yt-digest analyze https://youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ - I need to know if this video explains the specific Python deployment steps."
2. "yt-digest summary https://youtube.com/watch?v=example-id - Can you summarize the main arguments made in this keynote?"
3. "yt-digest transcript https://youtube.com/watch?v=example-id - Please provide the full transcript of this video, but specifically extract the technical constraints mentioned near the end."

Tips & Limitations

• Accuracy: The summary quality depends heavily on the accuracy of the original YouTube-generated captions. For videos with poor audio quality or lack of manual captions, the summary might require manual verification.
• Performance: Very long videos may take slightly longer to process. If you encounter timeouts, try requesting only the summary first rather than a full analysis.
• Audio Output: If you have the 'sag' skill installed, you can pipe the summary output into audio for an on-the-go listening experience.
• Public Videos Only: This tool relies on public access and cannot process private, unlisted, or age-restricted videos that do not provide caption accessibility through the standard API.