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id: gooseworks-ai/goose-skills/youtube-watcher
version: "7036e4ec"
license: MIT
install: manual
updated: 2026-07-23
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# youtube-watcher — YouTube Watcher pulls transcripts from YouTube videos, letting you summarize content, answer questions about what's said, and extract specific information. It works with videos that have captions or auto-generated subtitles, requiring yt-dlp to be installed.

Publisher: gooseworks-ai · Stars: 1062 · Updated: 2026-07-23

Install (manual): `git clone https://github.com/gooseworks-ai/goose-skills`

## SKILL.md

# YouTube Watcher

Fetch transcripts from YouTube videos to enable summarization, QA, and content extraction.

## Usage

### Get Transcript

Retrieve the text transcript of a video.

```bash
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/get_transcript.py "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"
```

## Examples

**Summarize a video:**

1. Get the transcript:
   ```bash
   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-dlp` to 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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