youtube-data-api
CommunityAutomate YouTube data access and insights.
System Documentation
What problem does it solve?
The YouTube Data API v3 Skill provides a programmable interface to search, fetch, and organize data from YouTube (videos, channels, playlists, and comments) for automated research and content analysis.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Search videos and retrieve details with filtering, sorting, and pagination for trend analysis.
- Get comprehensive video, channel, and playlist data (statistics, contentDetails) for dashboards and research.
- Retrieve playlist items, comments, and captions support to build enriched media insights and content inventories.
- Use Case: Automate weekly topic research by pulling top videos for a keyword and generating a summarized report with engagement metrics.
Quick Start
Run a basic search with your API key in the environment: python3 ~/.claude/skills/youtube-data-api/scripts/youtube_api.py search --query "AI" --max-results 5 Fetch video details by ID: python3 ~/.claude/skills/youtube-data-api/scripts/youtube_api.py video --id dQw4w9WgXcQ --parts snippet,statistics List channel information: python3 ~/.claude/skills/youtube-data-api/scripts/youtube_api.py channel --for-handle "@Google" --parts snippet,statistics
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