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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---
name: youtube-watcher
description: 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.
author: michael gathara
version: 1.0.0
triggers:
- "watch youtube"
- "summarize video"
- "video transcript"
- "youtube summary"
- "analyze video"
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---
# 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.
