tubelab

What This Skill Does

The TubeLab API skill provides OpenClaw with deep access to YouTube's vast ecosystem of data. It enables users to perform sophisticated research, conduct competitor analysis, and uncover viral video patterns through automated REST requests. The skill allows the agent to search for channels based on specific niches, identify performance outliers, extract metadata, fetch video transcripts, and pull comment threads. Whether you are building a content strategy, analyzing market gaps, or automating competitive research, this skill turns YouTube into a structured data source for your projects.

Installation

To integrate the TubeLab API skill into your OpenClaw environment, use the following install command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/antoniojps/tubelab-api After installation, ensure you have obtained your API key from the TubeLab developer portal, as you will need to provide this for authorization to access the endpoints.

Use Cases

• Niche Research: Identify high-performing channels in specific topics like 'educational tech' or 'DIY home repair' to understand audience engagement levels.
• Content Strategy: Use the outlier detection endpoint to find videos that significantly outperformed a channel's average, helping you identify successful content formats.
• Sentiment Analysis: Fetch thousands of comments from competitor videos to gauge audience sentiment, common questions, or unmet needs in a particular market.
• Content Repurposing: Retrieve full video transcripts to generate blog posts, summaries, or newsletters based on successful long-form YouTube content.

Example Prompts

1. "Find the top 5 gaming channels that have grown rapidly in the last 3 months and analyze their most popular video formats."
2. "Extract the transcript for video ID XYZ123 and summarize the key talking points into a list of actionable insights."
3. "Scan the competitor channel 'TechGuru' to identify any 'outlier' videos that have performed significantly better than their usual average."

Tips & Limitations

• Rate Management: The skill is limited to 10 requests per minute. Batch your requests and plan complex analysis to avoid 429 errors.
• Cost Efficiency: Remember that scanning is the most expensive operation (50-100 credits). Use targeted searches and specific video lookups, which are free or cheaper, before running broad scans.
• Data Freshness: Utilize cached responses where available to save credits and reduce load times, as cached results do not consume additional credits.