Anycrawl youtube video extractor
Extract public YouTube watch-page data from a single URL through the AnyCrawl Scrape API. Use when a user provides a YouTube watch link and wants as much structured data as possible from that one video, including normalized JSON plus the raw AnyCrawl markdown, HTML, links, transcript-bearing content, and screenshot artifacts.From its SKILL.md
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- 2 stars2 stars. Stars are a popularity signal and not a quality one, but at this level it is likely that nobody has read this closely except its author, and you would be relying on your own review.
- runs commandsInstructs the agent to run 1 command, including `node .claude/skills/anycrawl-youtube-video-extractor/scripts/run.js "<youtube-watch-url>"`.
SKILL.md
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AnyCrawl YouTube Video Extractor
Use this skill when the user gives a public YouTube watch URL and wants deep video metadata through AnyCrawl.
Workflow
- Accept a single public YouTube watch URL.
- Validate that it is one of the supported shapes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_IDhttps://youtu.be/VIDEO_ID
- Run the bundled extractor:
node .claude/skills/anycrawl-youtube-video-extractor/scripts/run.js "<youtube-watch-url>"
- Read the JSON file path printed by the script.
- Summarize the important fields for the user:
- title
- channel metadata
- publish and upload dates
- duration
- views and likes
- description
- transcript availability
- endscreen recommendations
- age restriction flag
- screenshot URL
Output Handling
The script writes a full JSON artifact to /tmp by default and prints a compact summary to stdout.
The artifact includes:
normalized: structured YouTube-focused extractionanycrawl: raw AnyCrawl response, includingmarkdown,html,links, andscreenshot@fullPagewhen availablerequest: the exact payload used for the successful attempt
If you need the official template notes, read references/template-notes.md.
What ships with it: 3 files
8.4 KB alongside SKILL.md, 1 of them executable
agents/
- openai.yaml256 B
references/
- template-notes.md1.1 KB
scripts/
- run.jsruns7.0 KB