YouTube

YouTube is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by axoviq-ai in synthadoc.

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Install in seconds

Install YouTube

Copy YouTube 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/axoviq-ai/synthadoc/tree/main/synthadoc/skills/youtube ~/.claude/skills/youtube

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/axoviq-ai/synthadoc.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: synthadoc/skills/youtube/SKILL.md in axoviq-ai/synthadoc
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/youtube
Collection: One of 10 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What YouTube does

YouTube extracts captions from YouTube video URLs without an API key or audio download. Use it to ingest a video's transcript, and optionally generate a structured summary with an LLM.

YouTube is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. YouTube comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, agentic-ai, cli-tool, domain-adaptation and enterprise.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

YouTube Skill

Extracts the transcript (captions) from a YouTube video using the YouTube caption system — no API key or audio download required. Optionally uses a vision-capable LLM to produce a structured summary (Overview, Topics, Key takeaways) before the raw transcript.

Setup

pip install youtube-transcript-api

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

Frequently asked about YouTube

What else does axoviq-ai publish alongside YouTube?
YouTube is one of 10 skills that DirSkills catalogs from axoviq-ai/synthadoc, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include DOCX, Image and Markdown. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way YouTube does, and is maintained by axoviq-ai in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the axoviq-ai/synthadoc page.
How does YouTube compare to other Automation skills?
YouTube ranks #838 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 YouTube against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.