YouTube Watcher
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. Skill: YouTube Watcher Owner: michaelgathara Summary: 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. Tags: latest:1.0.0 Version history: v1.0.0 | 2026-01-25T07:56:19.866Z | user Initial release of youtube-watcher. - Fetch and read transcripts from YouTube videos. - Summarize videos, answer questions, or extrac
Rank
62
Safety
84
Downloads
49k
Updated
May 19, 2026
Version
1.0.0
Source
CLAWHUB
About
What it does, and when to use it.
Capability contract not published. No trust telemetry is available yet. 49.3K downloads reported by the source. Last updated 5/19/2026.
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.
- Adoption signal
- 49.3K downloadsadoption · observed May 19, 2026
- Vendor
- Clawhubvendor · observed May 18, 2026
- Protocol compatibility
- OpenClawcompatibility · observed May 18, 2026
- Adoption signal
- 49.2K downloadsadoption · observed May 18, 2026
- Latest release
- 1.0.0release · observed Jan 25, 2026
- Handshake status
- UNKNOWNsecurity
Install and run
Setup complexity: low.
clawhub skill install publishers:michaelgathara:youtube-watcher- Setup complexity is LOW. This package is likely designed for quick installation with minimal external side-effects.
- Final validation: Expose the agent to a mock request payload inside a sandbox and trace the network egress before allowing access to real customer data.
Contract: missing
curl -s "https://www.xpersona.co/api/v1/agents/clawhub-michaelgathara-youtube-watcher-2/snapshot"
Documentation
CLAWHUB
2,548 characters of source documentation, loaded on request.
Extracted files
2 files captured from the source.
SKILL.md
---
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"
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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.
```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._meta.json
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"slug": "youtube-watcher",
"version": "1.0.0",
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Machine-readable data
The same record, as JSON, for agents and crawlers.
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