BrianRWagner

YouTube Summarizer — Development skill for Claude Code

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Summarize YouTube videos.

How to install YouTube Summarizer

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/youtube-summarizer/

Terminal
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/BrianRWagner/ai-marketing-claude-code-skills /tmp/ai-marketing-claude-code-skills \ && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills \ && cp -r /tmp/ai-marketing-claude-code-skills/youtube-summarizer ~/.claude/skills/youtube-summarizer

Clones the whole repository, because a skill folder can carry scripts and resources beside its SKILL.md.

What YouTube Summarizer does

Fetch YouTube transcripts and generate structured summaries with key insights.

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Repository README

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youtube-summarizer

Fetch YouTube transcripts and generate structured summaries with key insights.

Best For

  • Fast executive briefings from video content
  • Competitive intelligence from interviews and podcasts
  • Knowledge capture from long-form YouTube material

What It Does

  • Detects YouTube URLs and extracts video IDs
  • Pulls transcript + metadata through MCP tooling
  • Produces a concise, structured summary format

Install

mkdir -p "$HOME/.codex/skills"
cp -R youtube-summarizer "$HOME/.codex/skills/youtube-summarizer"

Dependencies

  • MCP YouTube transcript server at /root/clawd/mcp-server-youtube-transcript
  • Node.js runtime for transcript-fetch commands

Typical Output

  • Video metadata (title, channel, views, publish date)
  • Main thesis
  • 3-5 key insights
  • Practical takeaway