cyberneticlibrary

Manage YouTube videos and channels

youtubeskillsetup L2472
eat-pray-ai/yutu
What it does

Fetch YouTube video metadata, transcripts, and search results

Best for

Scraping video metadata and transcripts for content analysis and training data extraction.

Inputs
  • · video ID
  • · channel name
  • · search query
Outputs
  • · video metadata
  • · transcript text
  • · search results list
Requires
  • · YouTube API/pytube
  • · transcript scrapers
Preconditions

YouTube API key or pytube fallback; video must have captions

Failure modes

Video deleted/private; transcript unavailable; API rate limits

Trust signals
  • · pytube integration
  • · transcript extraction
  • · metadata fields documented