YouTube
Purpose
Fetch transcripts, metadata, and captions from YouTube videos. Use when you need to summarize a video, answer questions about its content, extract key points, compare videos, or pull quotes with timestamps. Supports auto-generated and manual captions, multiple languages, and translation.
Routing
- Use when: User shares a YouTube link, asks to summarize a video, wants to know what a video says, asks to extract information from a YouTube video, or needs video transcripts
- Do not use when: User wants to upload or stream video, manage a YouTube channel, or edit video files
- Outputs: Video transcripts with timestamps, summaries, key quotes, metadata, chapter breakdowns
- Success criteria: User receives accurate transcript content with timestamps and clear formatting
Trigger Examples
Positive
- Use the youtube skill for this request.
- Help me with youtube.
- User shares a YouTube link, asks to summarize a video, wants to know what a video says, asks to extract information from a YouTube video, or needs video transcripts
- YouTube: provide an actionable result.
Negative
- User wants to upload or stream video, manage a YouTube channel, or edit video files
- Do not use youtube for unrelated requests.
- This request is outside youtube scope.
- This is conceptual discussion only; no tool workflow is needed.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | No | YouTube video URL or video ID |
Runtime Prompt
- Current runtime prompt length: 821 characters.
- Runtime prompt is defined directly in
../youtube.json.