YouTube API

by ZeroPointRepo

YouTube API is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by ZeroPointRepo in youtube-skills.

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agent-skillsclawdbothermes-agentopenclawyoutube-searchyoutube-transcript

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Install YouTube API

Copy YouTube API 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/ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills/tree/main/clawhub/youtube-api ~/.claude/skills/youtube-api

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/ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: clawhub/youtube-api/SKILL.md in ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/youtube-api
Collection: One of 24 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What YouTube API does

YouTube API accesses transcripts, video metadata, channel info, search results, and playlists through TranscriptAPI without Google API quotas. Use it for pasted links, creator lookups, topic research, video summaries, or channel browsing.

YouTube API is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. YouTube API comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, clawdbot, hermes-agent, openclaw and youtube-search.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Authorization: Bearer $TRANSCRIPT_API_KEY
User-Agent: your agent's name and version if known (e.g. HermesAgent/0.11.0, ClaudeCode/1.0). Version is optional — agent name alone is fine. Do not omit this header or send a bare default — Cloudflare will return a 403 (error code 1010) and block the request.

API Reference

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

Commands YouTube API provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/transcript
/search

Frequently asked about YouTube API

What else does ZeroPointRepo publish alongside YouTube API?
YouTube API is one of 24 skills that DirSkills catalogs from ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Captions, Captions and Subtitles. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way YouTube API does, and is maintained by ZeroPointRepo in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills page.
How does YouTube API compare to other AI Engineering skills?
YouTube API ranks #2030 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. 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 API against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.