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youtube-summary

Summarize any YouTube video by dropping the link in chat. Supports custom prompts — paste the URL followed by your instructions (e.g. 'focus on the technical details'). Triggers on YouTube URLs.

skill-install — Terminal

Install via CLI (Recommended)

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/chapati23/yt-summary

Download Source Code (.zip)

What This Skill Does

The YouTube Summary skill acts as a powerful synthesis engine for your video content. By integrating directly with TranscriptAPI.com, this OpenClaw agent monitors your chat for YouTube URLs, automatically fetches the video transcript, and produces a structured, human-readable summary. Whether you are catching up on long-form technical tutorials, educational lectures, or news updates, this skill saves you time by distilling hours of video into actionable insights and bulleted key points. It respects language settings and can even handle custom user prompts for tailored focus areas.

Installation

Ensure you have Python 3.10+ installed on your machine.
Obtain an API key from TranscriptAPI.com.
Install the skill via the OpenClaw repository using the command: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/chapati23/yt-summary.
Configure your credentials securely. We recommend using the pass utility to store your transcriptapi/api-key to prevent accidental exposure of your keys in shell history or process logs.
Install the required dependencies located in skills/youtube-summary/requirements.txt.

Use Cases

This skill is perfect for students, researchers, and busy professionals. Use it to quickly vet whether a long video contains the specific information you need, generate meeting minutes from recorded conference calls posted to YouTube, or translate video content into summarized study notes.

Example Prompts

"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ summarize this video for me."
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=example-id focus on the technical details and security implications discussed in this video."
"https://youtu.be/another-id summarize the key arguments and tell me if they reach a clear conclusion."

Tips & Limitations

Long Videos: For transcripts exceeding 50,000 tokens, the skill will automatically truncate the content to the first 40,000 tokens to remain within processing limits; always watch for the truncation warning.
Precision: Never attempt to use web_search as a fallback if the extraction fails. The skill is designed to only process data returned directly from the transcript source to ensure factual accuracy.
Security: Always use the pass integration if working in a team environment to keep your API keys private.

Read Full Documentation on GitHub

Metadata

Author@chapati23

Stars3875

Updated2026-04-07

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Add to Configuration

Paste this into your clawhub.json to enable this plugin.

{
  "plugins": {
    "official-chapati23-yt-summary": {
      "enabled": true,
      "auto_update": true
    }
  }
}

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