YouTube
Purpose
Fetch transcripts, metadata, and captions from YouTube videos. Use when you need to summarize a video, answer questions about its content, extract key points, compare videos, or pull quotes with timestamps. Supports auto-generated and manual captions, multiple languages, and translation.
Routing
- Use when: User shares a YouTube link, asks to summarize a video, wants to know what a video says, asks to extract information from a YouTube video, or needs video transcripts
- Do not use when: User wants to upload or stream video, manage a YouTube channel, or edit video files
- Outputs: Video transcripts with timestamps, summaries, key quotes, metadata, chapter breakdowns
- Success criteria: User receives accurate transcript content with timestamps and clear formatting
Trigger Examples
Positive
- Use the youtube skill for this request.
- Help me with youtube.
- User shares a YouTube link, asks to summarize a video, wants to know what a video says, asks to extract information from a YouTube video, or needs video transcripts
- YouTube: provide an actionable result.
Negative
- User wants to upload or stream video, manage a YouTube channel, or edit video files
- Do not use youtube for unrelated requests.
- This request is outside youtube scope.
- This is conceptual discussion only; no tool workflow is needed.
Parameters
| Name |
Type |
Required |
Description |
| url |
string |
No |
YouTube video URL or video ID |
Runtime Prompt
- Current runtime prompt length: 821 characters.
- Runtime prompt is defined directly in
../youtube.json.
1---2name: youtube3description: Fetch transcripts, metadata, and captions from YouTube videos. Use when you need to summarize a video, answer questions about its content, extract key points, compare videos, or pull quotes with timestamps. Supports auto-generated and manual captions, multiple languages, and translation.4---56# YouTube78## Purpose910Fetch transcripts, metadata, and captions from YouTube videos. Use when you need to summarize a video, answer questions about its content, extract key points, compare videos, or pull quotes with timestamps. Supports auto-generated and manual captions, multiple languages, and translation.1112## Routing1314- Use when: User shares a YouTube link, asks to summarize a video, wants to know what a video says, asks to extract information from a YouTube video, or needs video transcripts15- Do not use when: User wants to upload or stream video, manage a YouTube channel, or edit video files16- Outputs: Video transcripts with timestamps, summaries, key quotes, metadata, chapter breakdowns17- Success criteria: User receives accurate transcript content with timestamps and clear formatting1819## Trigger Examples2021### Positive2223- Use the youtube skill for this request.24- Help me with youtube.25- User shares a YouTube link, asks to summarize a video, wants to know what a video says, asks to extract information from a YouTube video, or needs video transcripts26- YouTube: provide an actionable result.2728### Negative2930- User wants to upload or stream video, manage a YouTube channel, or edit video files31- Do not use youtube for unrelated requests.32- This request is outside youtube scope.33- This is conceptual discussion only; no tool workflow is needed.3435## Parameters3637| Name | Type | Required | Description |38|---|---|---|---|39| url | string | No | YouTube video URL or video ID |4041## Runtime Prompt4243- Current runtime prompt length: 821 characters.44- Runtime prompt is defined directly in `../youtube.json`.
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