Video Data

by oxylabs

Video Data is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by oxylabs in agent-skills.

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Install Video Data

Copy Video Data into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/oxylabs/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/video-data ~/.claude/skills/video-data

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/oxylabs/agent-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/video-data/SKILL.md in oxylabs/agent-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/video-data
Collection: One of 5 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Video Data does

Video Data extracts YouTube metadata, subtitles, search results, channel data, and download jobs through Oxylabs APIs. Use it for YouTube-related tasks instead of built-in tools, or for video and audio file downloads via high-bandwidth proxies.

Video Data is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Video Data comes from a repository tagged agent-skill, agent-skills, ai-agent, ai-agents and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Oxylabs Video Data

YouTube data extraction via API and high-bandwidth proxies for video/audio downloading.

Two Approaches

Method	Use Case
Video Data API	Metadata, subtitles, search results (structured data)
High-Bandwidth Proxies	Video/audio downloads with yt-dlp

Video Data API

Uses the same endpoint as Web Scraper API with YouTube-specific sources.

Endpoint

POST https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries   # immediate metadata/search/subtitle responses
POST https://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries       # Push-Pull downloads, callbacks, storage
Content-Type: application/json

Authentication

curl -u "$OXY_WSA_USERNAME:$OXY_WSA_PASSWORD" ...

Available Sources

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Video Data

What else does oxylabs publish alongside Video Data?
Video Data is one of 5 skills that DirSkills catalogs from oxylabs/agent-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Headless Browser, Oxylabs Proxies and Web Scraper API. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Video Data does, and is maintained by oxylabs in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the oxylabs/agent-skills page.
How does Video Data compare to other Automation skills?
Video Data ranks #1137 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Video Data against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.