What happens if a video doesn't have captions?

If no transcript is available, the skill will inform you and suggest searching for an alternative video that has closed captions enabled.

Are there any specific system requirements?

This skill requires Python 3.8 or higher and the installation of the youtube-transcript-api, requests, and beautifulsoup4 pip packages.

How do I make Claude remember what it learned from a video?

You can explicitly ask Claude to 'save this as a skill' or 'remember this,' which triggers the creation of a permanent SKILL.md file in your project's .claude/skills directory.

Can I search for videos without having a URL?

Yes, you can use commands like 'search videos about X' to find relevant content directly through the skill's search script.

How does the skill extract information from videos?

The skill uses the youtube-transcript-api to pull closed-caption text and BeautifulSoup4 to parse metadata, allowing Claude to read and analyze the video's content.

Watch YouTube

Name: Watch YouTube
Author: peilingjiang

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Learning & Documentation

Extracts and structures actionable knowledge from YouTube videos directly into your development environment.

About

The Watch YouTube skill transforms Claude Code into a powerful research assistant that learns directly from video content. By extracting transcripts and metadata from YouTube URLs or search results, it distills long-form video tutorials into structured summaries, key concepts, and actionable code snippets. This skill is particularly useful for developers who want to quickly implement solutions from video guides without manual note-taking, and it even allows for the persistence of extracted insights by saving them as permanent skill files for future reference.

Key Features

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In-terminal YouTube searching for relevant developer tutorials
Generation of structured summaries including commands and code
Automated transcript extraction and synthesis from YouTube URLs
Multi-video analysis for combined insights and cross-referencing
Persistent knowledge storage via custom SKILL.md file generation

Use Cases

Building a local knowledge base from a specific YouTube educational series
Searching for and summarizing CLI tool demonstrations
Following complex framework tutorials without leaving the terminal

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add peilingjiang/skills watch-youtube

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT

Download Skill

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