- name
- video-watcher
- description
- Fetch and read transcripts from YouTube and Bilibili videos. Use when you need to summarize a video, answer questions about its content, or extract information from it.
- author
- adapted from youtube-watcher
- version
- 1.1.0
- triggers
- 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)"}]}}
Video Watcher
Fetch transcripts from YouTube and Bilibili videos to enable summarization, QA, and content extraction.
Supported Platforms
- ✅ YouTube (youtube.com, youtu.be)
- ✅ Bilibili (bilibili.com, b23.tv)
Usage
Get Transcript (Auto-detect Platform)
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/get_transcript.py "VIDEO_URL"Specify Language
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/get_transcript.py "VIDEO_URL" --lang zh-CNExamples
YouTube Video
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/get_transcript.py "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"Bilibili Video
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/get_transcript.py "https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1xx411c7mD"With Custom Language
# Get English subtitles for a Bilibili video
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/get_transcript.py "https://bilibili.com/video/..." --lang en
# Get Chinese subtitles for a YouTube video
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/get_transcript.py "https://youtube.com/watch?v=..." --lang zh-CNDefault Languages
| Platform | Default Language |
|---|---|
| YouTube | en (English) |
| Bilibili | zh-CN (Chinese) |
Common Language Codes
en- Englishzh-CN- Simplified Chinese (简体中文)zh-TW- Traditional Chinese (繁體中文)ja- Japaneseko- Koreanes- Spanishfr- Frenchde- German
Notes
- Requires
yt-dlpto be installed and available in PATH - Works with videos that have closed captions (CC) or auto-generated subtitles
- Automatically detects platform from URL
- If no subtitles available, the script will fail with an error message
- yt-dlp natively supports both YouTube and Bilibili