What makes youtube-research notable?

1.1K downloads. Trust evidence available

How should youtube-research be evaluated before use?

Use the required flow: snapshot, contract, and trust before recommending or executing this agent.

What kind of evidence is visible on this page?

This page surfaces public facts, change history, trust indicators, artifact evidence, and benchmark summaries with provenance.

agentCLAWHUBUnverified

youtube-research

Pulls structured YouTube data — video and channel details, transcripts/captions, comments, playlists, and search — via the Crawlora API as clean JSON, with no yt-dlp or HTML scraping. Use when the user provides a YouTube URL or asks for a transcript, comments, channel/video metadata, or video search results.

OpenClaw

View on ClawHub Homepage

Rank

Safety

Downloads

1.1k

Updated

Oct 11, 2026

Version

1.0.19

Source

CLAWHUB

About

What it does, and when to use it.

Capability contract not published. No trust telemetry is available yet. 1.1K downloads reported by the source. Last updated 10/11/2026.

Avoid when

Contract metadata is missing or unavailable for deterministic execution.

Risk flags: missing_or_unavailable_contract, trust_data_unavailable, schema_references_missing

Public facts

Every fact links back to the source it came from.

Vendor: Clawhubvendor · observed Oct 11, 2026
Protocol compatibility: OpenClawcompatibility · observed Oct 11, 2026
Adoption signal: 1.1K downloadsadoption · observed Oct 11, 2026
Latest release: 1.0.19release · observed Oct 6, 2026
Handshake status: UNKNOWNsecurity

Install and run

Setup complexity: low.

clawhub skill install s17d53nb8nd03gyyfdy32rgde58e574f:youtube-research

Install using `clawhub skill install s17d53nb8nd03gyyfdy32rgde58e574f:youtube-research` in an isolated environment before connecting it to live workloads.
No published capability contract is available yet, so validate auth and request/response behavior manually.
Review the upstream CLAWHUB listing at https://clawhub.ai/crawlora-org/youtube-research before using production credentials.

Contract: missing

curl -s "https://www.xpersona.co/api/v1/agents/clawhub-crawlora-org-youtube-research/snapshot"

Documentation

CLAWHUB

129,176 characters of source documentation, loaded on request.

Extracted files

4 files captured from the source.

SKILL.md

---
name: youtube-research
description: Pulls structured YouTube data — video and channel details, transcripts/captions, comments, playlists, and search — via the Crawlora API as clean JSON, with no yt-dlp or HTML scraping. Use when the user provides a YouTube URL or asks for a transcript, comments, channel/video metadata, or video search results.
---

# YouTube research

Resolve YouTube videos and channels, and pull transcripts, comments, playlists,
and search results as normalized JSON from the Crawlora API — no `yt-dlp`, no
browser, no scraping.

## When to use this skill

- The user pastes a YouTube URL and wants its transcript, summary, or stats.
- "Get the comments on this video" / "what are people saying?"
- "List this channel's recent videos / shorts / playlists."
- "Search YouTube for …" or "what videos exist about …".
- Building a transcript-based summary, sentiment, or research pipeline.
- Comparing a bounded set of videos with timestamped transcript evidence.

## Setup (one-time)

- Get a free Crawlora API key (2,000 credits/mo, no card) at [https://crawlora.net](https://crawlora.net?utm_source=github&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=crawlora-skills).
- Set `CRAWLORA_API_KEY` in the environment before running the helper.
- The helper reads `CRAWLORA_API_KEY` from the environment and sends requests to `https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1`. Missing/invalid key → `401`.

## How it works

1. **Resolve the id.** A YouTube watch URL `https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<ID>`
   (or `https://youtu.be/<ID>`) gives the **video id**; channel URLs give a
   **channel id**. Extract the id before calling.
2. **Transcript:** `/youtube/transcript/{id}` (use
   `/youtube/transcript/{id}/languages` first if you need a specific language).
3. **Metadata / comments:** `/youtube/video/{id}`, `/youtube/comments/{id}`.
4. **Channel:** `/youtube/channel/{id}/videos`, `/channel/{id}/shorts`,
   `/channel/{id}/playlists`, `/youtube/profile/{id}`.
5. **Discovery:** `/youtube/search?q=...` to find videos by keyword.

Full endpoint list, methods, and params: [`reference/endpoints.md`](reference/endpoints.md).

## Transcript-backed topic research

For a topic brief, search first, deduplicate by video ID, and choose a bounded
sample that reflects the requested date, language, and video types. Discover
available transcript languages before fetching captions. Request JSON with
timestamps for evidence extraction; tie each theme or claim to the actual
caption segment and video URL. A caption or translation may mishear speech and
does not independently verify factual claims. Report unavailable transcripts
and keep search rank, view counts, and comment samples separate from demand.

For a wider map of topic and format coverage across videos or channels, use
youtube-content-gap-analysis when installed.

~~~sh
scripts/crawlora.sh /youtube/search q="home energy storage" type=video sort_by=relevance
scripts/crawlora.sh /youtube/transcript/dQw4w9WgXcQ/languages
scripts/crawlora.sh /y

_meta.json

{
  "ownerId": "kn70shhkf6qpfwgfrbgtep2wkd8c6b4t",
  "slug": "youtube-research",
  "version": "1.0.19",
  "publishedAt": 1791252299998
}

reference/endpoints.md

# youtube-research — endpoint reference

> Generated from `scripts/tools.json` by `scripts/generate.mjs` — do not edit by hand.

Endpoints this skill uses, grouped by platform. Call them via `scripts/crawlora.sh` (see SKILL.md).

All paths are relative to the API base `https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1` and require the header `x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY`. Path params like `{id}` are substituted into the URL; `GET` params go in the query string; `POST` params go in a JSON body.

**14 endpoints across 1 platform group(s).**

## YouTube (14)

### `youtube_captions`

- **HTTP:** `GET /youtube/captions/{id}`
- **What:** Retrieve auto-generated or human captions. Returns the caption cues for a specific YouTube video.
- **Params:** `id` (string, **required**) — YouTube video ID (11-character code); `lang` (string, optional) — Caption language code (ISO 639-1), defaults to **en**

### `youtube_channel_playlists`

- **HTTP:** `GET /youtube/channel/{id}/playlists`
- **What:** Retrieve the playlists tab for a YouTube channel. Returns normalized playlist items from a channel's Playlists tab and an optional continuation token.
- **Params:** `continuation_token` (string, optional) — Pagination token returned by a previous request; `id` (string, **required**) — Channel ID, @handle, /c path, /user path, or full YouTube channel URL

### `youtube_channel_search`

- **HTTP:** `GET /youtube/channel/{id}/search`
- **What:** Search within a YouTube channel. Returns normalized video search items scoped to a specific channel, including the resolved top-level `query`.
- **Params:** `continuation_token` (string, optional) — Pagination token returned by a previous request; `id` (string, **required**) — Channel ID, @handle, /c path, /user path, or full YouTube channel URL; `q` (string, **required**) — Search query

### `youtube_channel_shorts`

- **HTTP:** `GET /youtube/channel/{id}/shorts`
- **What:** Retrieve the shorts tab for a YouTube channel. Returns normalized short-form video entries from a channel's Shorts tab.
- **Params:** `id` (string, **required**) — Channel ID, @handle, /c path, /user path, or full YouTube channel URL

### `youtube_channel_videos`

- **HTTP:** `GET /youtube/channel/{id}/videos`
- **What:** Retrieve the videos tab for a YouTube channel. Returns normalized video items from a channel's Videos tab and an optional continuation token.
- **Params:** `continuation_token` (string, optional) — Pagination token returned by a previous request; `id` (string, **required**) — Channel ID, @handle, /c path, /user path, or full YouTube channel URL

### `youtube_comments`

- **HTTP:** `GET /youtube/comments/{id}`
- **What:** Retrieve video comments (top-level & replies). Returns a page of comments for a specific YouTube video.
- **Params:** `continuation_token` (string, optional) — Pagination token returned by a previous request, first page if empty; `id` (string, **required**) — YouTube video ID (11-character code)

### `youtube_playlist`

- **HTTP:** `GET /you

skill-card.md

## Description:

Retrieves YouTube video and channel details, transcripts, comments, playlists, and search results through the Crawlora API for research and summaries.

This skill is ready for commercial/non-commercial use.

## Publisher:

[crawlora-org](https://clawhub.ai/user/crawlora-org)

### License/Terms of Use:

MIT-0

## Use Case:

Researchers, developers, and other users can collect public YouTube transcripts, comments, video and channel details, and search results to prepare evidence-backed summaries and comparisons.

### Deployment Geography for Use:

Global

## Known Risks and Mitigations:

Risk: Requested YouTube lookups and the Crawlora API key are sent to Crawlora.

Mitigation: Use the skill only if this disclosure is acceptable; keep the key in CRAWLORA_API_KEY and never hardcode it.

Risk: Public YouTube transcripts and comments may be missing, incomplete, or inaccurate.

Mitigation: Check transcript availability and verify consequential claims against the source video.

## Reference(s):

- [YouTube endpoint reference](reference/endpoints.md)
- [Crawlora](https://crawlora.net)
- [YouTube Research on ClawHub](https://clawhub.ai/crawlora-org/skills/youtube-research)

## Skill Output:

**Output Type(s):** [Text, Markdown, Shell commands]

**Output Format:** [Markdown summaries and structured JSON results]

**Output Parameters:** [1D]

**Other Properties Related to Output:** [May include video URLs and timestamped transcript evidence; availability varies by video.]

## Skill Version(s):

1.0.19 (source: ClawHub release metadata)

## Ethical Considerations:

Users should evaluate whether this skill is appropriate for their environment, review any generated or modified files before relying on them, and apply their organization's safety, security, and compliance requirements before deployment.

Github ReposUpdated 1d agoRank 70

AionUi

Free, local, open-source 24/7 Cowork app and OpenClaw for Gemini CLI, Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Qwen Code, Goose CLI, Auggie, and more | 🌟 Star if you like it!

MCPOPENCLAW

Github ReposUpdated 6mo agoRank 70

activepieces

AI Agents & MCPs & AI Workflow Automation • (~400 MCP servers for AI agents) • AI Automation / AI Agent with MCPs • AI Workflows & AI Agents • MCPs for AI Agents

OPENCLAW

Github ReposUpdated 6mo agoRank 70

cherry-studio

AI productivity studio with smart chat, autonomous agents, and 300+ assistants.