katyella

Research Extract

Name: Research Extract
Author: katyella

Communication community

SOURCE https://github.com/katyella/research-extract

Description

Extract structured insights from YouTube, podcasts, blogs, PDFs, and audio using Claude Code agent teams. Skills.sh skill.

Installation

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

README

research-extract

Extract structured insights from YouTube videos, podcasts, blogs, PDFs, and audio files using Claude Code's parallel agent teams.

research-extract

What it does

Ingest → Extract → Present

Feed it any content source and it will:

Ingest the content (download captions, transcribe audio, fetch articles)
Chunk long transcripts into processable pieces
Extract insights in parallel using agent teams (3 agents processing chunks simultaneously)
Merge and rank all findings into a consolidated analysis
Generate variants — Show Notes and Cheat Sheet HTML pages

What gets extracted

Key insights with quotes and attribution
Notable quotes
Recurring themes with frequency counts
Challenges and problems discussed
Solutions and approaches proposed
Concrete action items
Frameworks and mental models
External resources (books, tools, people, podcasts, courses)

Install

npx skills add katyella/research-extract

This installs into `.claude/skills/research-extract/` in your project.

First-time setup

bash .claude/skills/research-extract/scripts/setup.sh

Checks for required system tools (yt-dlp, pdftotext, whisper).

**Required:** `yt-dlp` (for YouTube). Install with `brew install yt-dlp` or `pip install yt-dlp`.

**Optional:** `whisper` (for audio without captions), `pdftotext` (for PDFs).

Usage

In Claude Code, use the `/research-extract` command:

/research-extract ingest https://youtube.com/watch?v=abc123 as my-talk
/research-extract analyze my-talk
/research-extract variants my-talk
/research-extract list sources

Full workflow example

> /research-extract ingest https://youtube.com/watch?v=abc123 as startup-advice

Ingested: startup-advice (How to Start a Startup - Sam Altman)
Transcript: