youtube-transcript-extractor-api-skill
This skill helps users automatically extract YouTube video transcripts and metadata via the BrowserAct API. The Agent should proactively apply this skill when users express needs like extracting full transcript from a specific YouTube video, getting subtitles and metadata for video content analysis, gathering video titles and likes counts, summarizing YouTube videos without watching them, collecting channel details from a video URL, tracking transcript automation for specific videos, scraping YouTube subtitles for internal knowledge bases, fetching full video content for AI summarization pipelines, downloading structured transcripts from YouTube links, analyzing video text content for media research, monitoring video publisher information and channel links, or building datasets from YouTube video transcripts.
Install via CLI (Recommended)
clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/browseract-ai/youtube-transcript-extractor-api-skillWhat This Skill Does
The YouTube Transcript Extractor API Skill is a robust tool designed to bridge the gap between raw video content and actionable data. By utilizing the BrowserAct API, it allows OpenClaw users to programmatically pull full transcripts and metadata from any public YouTube video. Unlike traditional screen-scraping techniques that may trigger CAPTCHAs or suffer from IP-blocking, this skill leverages a optimized API pipeline that ensures high reliability and speed. It extracts the full text of a video, along with pertinent metadata, providing a clean JSON output suitable for AI summarization, research analysis, or building searchable knowledge bases.
Installation
To install this skill, use the OpenClaw command-line interface as follows:
clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/browseract-ai/youtube-transcript-extractor-api-skill
After installation, ensure you have your BROWSERACT_API_KEY configured in your environment variables. Without this key, the agent will prompt you to visit the BrowserAct Console to obtain your credentials before any scraping operations can begin.
Use Cases
This skill is ideal for researchers, content creators, and developers. Common use cases include:
- Content Summarization: Fetching transcripts to feed into LLMs for rapid summarization without needing to watch lengthy videos.
- Knowledge Management: Scraping educational content into internal wikis or vector databases.
- Data Analysis: Extracting metadata like view counts, titles, and author info for trend monitoring or competitive research.
- Accessibility: Generating clean text versions of video content for archival or search indexing purposes.
Example Prompts
- "Please extract the transcript for this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st534T7-mdE so I can summarize it."
- "I need the full transcript and metadata for this YouTube video to add it to my research database. Can you handle that?"
- "Go to this URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=example and scrape the subtitles and channel information for me."
Tips & Limitations
- Patience is Key: Browser automation can take several minutes. Look for the timestamped logs (
[HH:MM:SS] Task Status: running) in the terminal. Do not interpret these as errors; they indicate the agent is actively processing. - API Prerequisites: Always verify your API key is set correctly. If the script fails, double-check your connectivity to the BrowserAct API endpoint.
- Scope: This tool is designed for public YouTube videos. It cannot bypass age restrictions, private video locks, or content that has disabled subtitle extraction.
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{
"plugins": {
"official-browseract-ai-youtube-transcript-extractor-api-skill": {
"enabled": true,
"auto_update": true
}
}
}Tags(AI)
Flags: external-api, code-execution
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