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Media & Streaming @michaelgathara Updated 2/26/2026

📺 Youtube Watcher OpenClaw Skill - ClawHub

Do you want your AI agent to automate Youtube Watcher workflows? This free skill from ClawHub helps with media & streaming tasks without building custom tools from scratch.

What this skill does

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.

Install

npx clawhub@latest install youtube-watcher

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youtube-watcher1.0.0Fetch and read transcripts from YouTube videos. Use when you need to summarize a video, answer questions about its content, or extract information from it.

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:

  1. Get the transcript:
    python3 {baseDir}/scripts/get_transcript.py "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
    
  2. Read the output and summarize it for the user.

Find specific information:

  1. Get the transcript.
  2. 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.
Original URL: https://github.com/openclaw/skills/blob/main/skills/michaelgathara/youtube-watcher

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