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youtube-api

Use when YouTube data is needed without Google API quotas or OAuth setup: transcripts, video metadata, channel info, search results, playlists. Triggers on pasted YouTube links, creator names, @handles, topic research, video summaries, channel browsing, or any request where YouTube content would help — even if not mentioned explicitly. Not for uploads, account management, or written-source-only research.

ScannedSkillSource: GitHub

1,093 stars +37 this week Updated 21d ago License MIT Context ≈105 tokens always loaded

65popular

Why this score

Stars

14/35

Usage (forks)

5/15

Upkeep

25/25

License

15/15

Owner history

6/10

This repo hosts 10 skills, so its 1,093 stars are split between them (about 109 each) for scoring.

Popularity score: 65/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank

Security

Scanned Oct 20, 2026 at commit 4f7994b94e7d, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.

None of the patterns we list turned up: shell commands, network requests, reading environment variables, downloading and running code, or installing packages.

A scan lists patterns in the code. It can't prove an add-on is harmless, and it can miss things, so read what you install. How we scan

Alternatives

Other makers' add-ons that do the same job, next to this one.

Name	Score	Stars	Context	Updated
This oneyoutube-api ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills · Skill	65	★ 1.1k	≈105 always	21d ago
youtube axoviq-ai/synthadoc · Skill Same job: audio, voice & music	66	★ 1.6k	≈20 always	16d ago
youtube-clipper op7418/Youtube-clipper-skill · Skill Both about youtube and tube	68	★ 2.2k	≈15 always	10mo ago
youtube-transcript badlogic/pi-skills · Skill Same job: audio, voice & music	64	★ 2.6k	≈22 always	5mo ago
youtube-data artemchuikin/youtube-skills · Skill Same job: audio, voice & music	63	★ 398	≈86 always	20d ago
youtube-to-docs DoIT-Artificial-Intelligence/youtube-to-docs · Skill Same job: audio, voice & music	66	★ 51	≈108 always	16d ago

Install

mkdir -p .claude/skills/youtube-api

curl -sL https://codeload.github.com/ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills/tar.gz/4f7994b94e7d5e250c3b51102d609992e04d5d0d | tar -xz -C .claude/skills/youtube-api --strip-components=3 "youtube-skills-4f7994b94e7d5e250c3b51102d609992e04d5d0d/clawhub/youtube-api"

To remove it later:

rm -rf .claude/skills/youtube-api

npx skills add ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills --skill youtube-api

Pinned to commit 4f7994b94e7d as listed by GitHub.

Context cost: ≈105 tokens loaded every session (name and description), plus ≈2.3k tokens when the skill is used.

The Claude Code command downloads this skill folder at the pinned commit into .claude/skills/. The Skills CLI (npx skills) works with many agents but can't pin a version, so it installs whatever is current.

Used for

Content & media › Video Content & media › Audio, voice & music

Facts

Repo: ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills
Stars: 1,093
Forks: 124
Last push: 2026-10-14 (21d ago)
License: MIT
Owner: ZeroPointRepo · since 2025
Works with: Claude Code, Skills CLI