Youtube

Skill TikHub/tikhub-plugin/skills/youtube

Work with YouTube data via TikHub — fetch video info, downloadable stream URLs, captions/subtitles, comments and replies, channel info, and run general/shorts search. Use when the task targets YouTube. Covers the YouTube Web-V2 API.From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add TikHub/tikhub-plugin --skill youtube

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SKILL.md

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YouTube (via TikHub)

Deep coverage of YouTube via the Web-V2 API. Exhaustive endpoints: tikhub-find-endpoint "<goal>" --platform youtube.

Setup gate

[ -z "${TIKHUB_API_KEY:-}" ] && echo "Set TIKHUB_API_KEY first (see tikhub-onboarding)."

Coverage: YouTube-Web-V2. (The older YouTube-Web API is de-scoped — reach it via discovery.)

Key endpoints

Goal	Method + path	Key params
Video info	`GET /api/v1/youtube/web_v2/get_video_info`	`video_id`, `language_code`
Video info by URL	`GET /api/v1/youtube/web_v2/get_video_info_v2`	`video_url`
Download streams	`GET /api/v1/youtube/web_v2/get_video_streams_v2`	`video_id` \| `video_url`
Captions/subtitles	`GET /api/v1/youtube/web_v2/get_video_captions`	`video_id`, `language_code`, `format`
Video comments	`GET /api/v1/youtube/web_v2/get_video_comments`	`video_id`, `sort_by`, `continuation_token`
Comment replies	`GET /api/v1/youtube/web_v2/get_video_comment_replies`	`continuation_token`
Channel id (from URL)	`GET /api/v1/youtube/web_v2/get_channel_id`	`channel_url`
Channel info	`GET /api/v1/youtube/web_v2/get_channel_description`	`channel_id`, `continuation_token`
General search	`GET /api/v1/youtube/web_v2/get_general_search`	`search_query`, `upload_time`
Shorts search	`GET /api/v1/youtube/web_v2/get_shorts_search`	`search_query`, `upload_time`

Example

curl -s "https://api.tikhub.io/api/v1/youtube/web_v2/get_video_info?video_id=dQw4w9WgXcQ" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TIKHUB_API_KEY"

Pagination

Comments, replies, channel feeds, and the *_v2 search endpoints use continuation_token — pass the token from the previous response; stop when none is returned. Each page is billed — cap it.

Hand off to task skills

Download videos / captions → social-media-downloader
Analyze a channel → creator-analytics
Comment mining → comments-analysis
Search/listening → social-listening
Large pulls → bulk-data-export

Red flags

Use get_video_streams_v2 for downloadable media URLs; get_video_info is metadata only.
A video_id is the 11-char id; pass full URLs to the *_v2 variants.