49 lines
1.5 KiB
Markdown
49 lines
1.5 KiB
Markdown
---
|
|
name: youtube-watcher
|
|
description: 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.
|
|
author: michael gathara
|
|
version: 1.0.0
|
|
triggers:
|
|
- "watch youtube"
|
|
- "summarize video"
|
|
- "video transcript"
|
|
- "youtube summary"
|
|
- "analyze video"
|
|
metadata: {"clawdbot":{"emoji":"📺","requires":{"bins":["yt-dlp"]},"install":[{"id":"brew","kind":"brew","formula":"yt-dlp","bins":["yt-dlp"],"label":"Install yt-dlp (brew)"},{"id":"pip","kind":"pip","package":"yt-dlp","bins":["yt-dlp"],"label":"Install yt-dlp (pip)"}]}}
|
|
---
|
|
|
|
# YouTube Watcher
|
|
|
|
Fetch transcripts from YouTube videos to enable summarization, QA, and content extraction.
|
|
|
|
## Usage
|
|
|
|
### Get Transcript
|
|
|
|
Retrieve the text transcript of a video.
|
|
|
|
```bash
|
|
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/get_transcript.py "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"
|
|
```
|
|
|
|
## Examples
|
|
|
|
**Summarize a video:**
|
|
|
|
1. Get the transcript:
|
|
```bash
|
|
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.
|