Youtube watcher

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Install

npx -y skills add gooseworks-ai/goose-skills --skill youtube-watcher

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Fetch and read transcripts from YouTube videos. Use when you need to summarize a video, answer questions about its content, or extract information from it.

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YouTube Watcher

Fetch transcripts from YouTube videos to enable summarization, QA, and content extraction.

Usage

Get Transcript

Retrieve the text transcript of a video.

python3 {baseDir}/scripts/get_transcript.py "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"

Examples

Summarize a video:

Get the transcript:

python3 {baseDir}/scripts/get_transcript.py "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"

Read the output and summarize it for the user.

Find specific information:

Get the transcript.
Search the text for keywords or answer the user's question based on the content.

Notes

Requires yt-dlp to be installed and available in the PATH.
Works with videos that have closed captions (CC) or auto-generated subtitles.
If a video has no subtitles, the script will fail with an error message.