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YouTube CLI App — Data skill for Claude Code

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Command-line tool for creators to upload, update and analyze YouTube videos via the Data and Analytics APIs.

How to install YouTube CLI App

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open faborsky/youtube-cli-app and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What YouTube CLI App does

Command-line tool for creators to upload, update and analyze YouTube videos via the Data and Analytics APIs. Built to be driven by AI agents.

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README

YouTube CLI

**🇬🇧 English** · [🇨🇿 Čeština](README.cs.md) · [🇪🇸 Español](i18n/README.es.md) · [🇧🇷 Português](i18n/README.pt-BR.md) · [🇩🇪 Deutsch](i18n/README.de.md) · [🇫🇷 Français](i18n/README.fr.md) · [🇨🇳 简体中文](i18n/README.zh-CN.md) · [🇯🇵 日本語](i18n/README.ja.md) · [🇸🇪 Svenska](i18n/README.sv.md) · [🇳🇴 Norsk](i18n/README.nb.md) · [🇩🇰 Dansk](i18n/README.da.md)

A Python command-line tool for managing videos on [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/) through the YouTube Data API v3 and for reading channel performance through the YouTube Analytics API v2. It's for anyone who publishes on YouTube regularly and is tired of clicking through YouTube Studio. Uploads, metadata, thumbnails, playlists, stats, watch time and retention, all from the terminal. Built so that [Claude Code](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code) or another AI agent can drive it.

Author: [Jindřich Fáborský](https://www.faborsky.com)

**v2.0.0** · [Changelog](CHANGELOG.md) · [API notes](docs/api-notes.md)

[!TIP] **The app is free and it's yours.** Clone it, use it, rebuild it your way.

Want to build tools like this for your own marketing? That's what I teach: **[faborsky.com](https://www.faborsky.com)**.

**📊 Views are counted differently since August 24, 2026.** YouTube now counts a view as soon as playback starts, with no minimum watch time, for **all** formats (Shorts have worked this way since March 31, 2025). The old definition is gone from the public Data API and survives as **engaged views** in the Analytics API. This CLI shows both, see [View counting](#view-counting-since-august-24-2026).

Why this exists

Publishing a video on YouTube involves a lot of repetitive manual work: upload the file through the web interface, fill in the title and description, set privacy, add a thumbnail, put it in a playlist. This CLI automates those steps so you can script them or chain them with other tools.

Here's what a podcast release driven by Claude Code can look