youtube

What This Skill Does

The YouTube skill for OpenClaw AI acts as a specialized bridge to the Teneo Protocol, enabling agents to programmatically query the vast YouTube database. By integrating directly with decentralized infrastructure, this skill allows your AI agent to fetch real-time video metadata and perform complex search queries without manual browser interaction. Whether you are building an automated content curation engine or a research assistant that needs to synthesize video transcripts and metrics, the YouTube skill provides a clean, API-driven interface to access structured data directly within your agent workflow.

Installation

To integrate this skill, use the ClawHub installation command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/firestream792/youtube-teneo. Ensure you have the Teneo Protocol SDK configured in your project by installing the necessary npm packages (@teneo-protocol/sdk and dotenv). You must define your PRIVATE_KEY in a local .env file to authorize transactions on the Base network, as the skill operates on a pay-per-query model to ensure sustainable, high-quality data access via decentralized nodes.

Use Cases

This skill is ideal for several automation scenarios:

• Market Research: Automatically track the performance of competitors' videos by pulling metadata like view counts, ratings, and publish dates.
• Content Curation: Build a newsletter or social media feed that automatically finds and summarizes the latest tutorials on specific technical topics.
• Asset Analysis: Fetch video details for a list of URLs to validate video availability and metadata before passing them into a transcription or summarization agent.

Example Prompts

1. "@youtube search AI agent development tutorials upload_date"
2. "@youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBrb6UdhVSI"
3. "@youtube search best practices for prompt engineering relevance"

Tips & Limitations

• Pricing: Keep in mind that each query has a cost of $0.0025 USD in USDC on the Base network. Monitor your agent's usage to avoid unexpected costs.
• Sorting: When using the search command, specifying the sort parameter (e.g., 'view_count') significantly improves the quality of results for research tasks.
• Latency: Because the skill relies on decentralized node responses, ensure your SDK timeout settings are configured to at least 60 seconds for larger queries.
• Limitations: This skill focuses on metadata extraction and search. It does not provide full video file downloading or direct access to proprietary YouTube comment threads.