youtube-video-api-skill
This skill helps users automatically extract channel-level and video detail data from a specific YouTube channel via BrowserAct API. Agent should proactively apply this skill when users express needs like extracting channel video data, getting latest or popular videos from a YouTube channel, tracking competitor channel content, extracting video metrics such as views likes comments, retrieving subscriber count and channel info, monitoring posting cadence of a YouTube channel, gathering video data for content strategy analysis, getting earliest videos of a YouTube creator, analyzing engagement s
npx skills add browser-act/skills --skill youtube-video-api-skill --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# YouTube Video API Skill ## 📖 Introduction This skill provides users with a one-stop YouTube video data extraction service using BrowserAct's YouTube Video API template. It can directly extract structured channel-level data plus video detail data from a specific YouTube channel through a single API request. Just input the YouTube channel URL and video type (Latest, Popular, or Earliest), and you can get clean, ready-to-use video metrics. ## ✨ Features 1. **No hallucinations, ensuring stable and accurate data extraction**: Pre-set workflows avoid generative AI hallucinations. 2. **No CAPTCHA issues**: No need to handle reCAPTCHA or other verification challenges. 3. **No IP access restrictions and geo-blocking**: No need to deal with regional IP restrictions. 4. **More agile execution speed**: Compared to pure AI-driven browser automation solutions, task execution is faster. 5. **Extremely high cost-effectiveness**: Significantly reduces data acquisition costs compared to AI solutions that consume a large number of Tokens. ## 🔑 API Key Guidance Flow Before running, you must check the `BROWSERACT_API_KEY` environment variable. If it is not set, do not take any other actions first.
- 📖 Introduction
- ✨ Features
- 🔑 API Key Guidance Flow
- 🛠️ Input Parameters
- 🚀 Invocation Method
- ⏳ Running Status Monitoring
- 📊 Data Output Description
- Channel fields
- Video fields
- ⚠️ Error Handling & Retry
- 🌟 Typical Use Cases
Invocation example python -u ./scripts/youtube_video_api.py "YouTube_channel_url" "Video_type"
What does the youtube-video-api-skill skill do?
This skill helps users automatically extract channel-level and video detail data from a specific YouTube channel via BrowserAct API. Agent should proactively apply this skill when users express needs like extracting channel video data, getting latest or popular videos from a YouTube channel, tracking competitor channel content, extracting video metrics such as views likes comments, retrieving subscriber count and channel info, monitoring posting cadence of a YouTube channel, gathering video data for content strategy analysis, getting earliest videos of a YouTube creator, analyzing engagement s
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add browser-act/skills --skill youtube-video-api-skill --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From browser-act/skills, a repository with 5,160 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.