YouTube Watcher OpenClaw Skill

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.

v1.0.0 Updated 2 mo ago

Installation

clawhub install youtube-watcher

Requires npm i -g clawhub

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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.

Statistics

Downloads 45.5k

Stars 273

Current installs 489

All-time installs 512

Versions 1

Comments 6

Created Jan 25, 2026

Updated Feb 26, 2026

Author

Michael Gathara

@michaelgathara

Latest Changes

v1.0.0 · Jan 25, 2026

Initial release of youtube-watcher. - Fetch and read transcripts from YouTube videos. - Summarize videos, answer questions, or extract specific information from transcripts. - Trigger phrases include: "watch youtube", "summarize video", "video transcript", "youtube summary", and "analyze video". - Requires installation of `yt-dlp` for transcript retrieval. - Only works with videos that have closed captions or auto-generated subtitles.

Quick Install

clawhub install youtube-watcher

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