YouTube Skill
Give your AI agent the ability to read and understand YouTube - both your own channel analytics and any public video's content. **What you can do:** - Search across your entire channel's transcripts ("when did I talk about burnout?") with clickable timestamps - Pull transcripts from any public YouTube video (yours, MrBeast's, anyone's) - completely free and unlimited - Access real YouTube Studio analytics: demographics, traffic sources, watch time, and revenue (not just public view counts) - Set up automated briefings via OpenClaw ("how did my videos do this week?") - Batch download and search across hundreds of transcripts at once **Technical details:** - Uses Google's free API tier (10,000 units/day) - Secure OAuth 2.0 authentication - credentials stay on your machine - Five standalone Python scripts (1,597 lines total) with inline dependencies using PEP 723 - Transcript caching with full-text search indexes for fast searching - Works with uv (Python package runner) - no virtualenv or pip install needed **Real-world use cases:** - Downloaded 29 video transcripts in one command and searched for recurring themes - Found exact timestamps from videos published 8 months ago with clickable links - Researched competitor channels by analyzing their transcripts - Automated morning briefings via OpenClaw on Telegram Built by Aaron Nev (@aaronnev_) with Claude. Works out-of-box with OpenClaw's skill auto-discovery and Claude Code.
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