Fetch and read transcripts from YouTube videos. Use when you need to summarize a video, answer questions about its content, or extract information from it.
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Install
npx clawhub@latest install youtube-watcher
Documentation
YouTube Watcher
Fetch transcripts from YouTube videos to enable summarization, QA, and content extraction.
Usage
Get Transcript
Retrieve the text transcript of a video.
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/get_transcript.py "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"
Examples
Summarize a video:1. Get the transcript:
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/get_transcript.py "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
2. Read the output and summarize it for the user.
Find specific information:1. Get the transcript.
2. Search the text for keywords or answer the user's question based on the content.
Notes
- -Requires
yt-dlpto be installed and available in the PATH. - -Works with videos that have closed captions (CC) or auto-generated subtitles.
- -If a video has no subtitles, the script will fail with an error message.
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