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 .