By name: youtube-summarizer display-name: YouTube Summarizer description: Summarize YouTube videos by extracting transcripts and generating structured summaries with key points, timestamps, and topic segmentation version: 1.0.0 category: knowledge user-invocable: true tags: [youtube, video, summary, transcript, learning, notes] capabilities: [transcript-extraction, summary-generation, timestamp-mapping, topic-segmentation] handler: ./handler.js os: [win32, darwin, linux] tools: [yt-summarize, yt-transcript, yt-chapters] instructions: | Use this skill when the user wants to summarize a YouTube video, extract its transcript, or generate study notes from video content. Extracts captions/subtitles via YouTube's timedtext API and produces structured summaries. examples:
- input: "summarize https://youtube.com/watch?v=abc123" action: summarize
- input: "transcript https://youtu.be/abc123" action: transcript
- input: "chapters https://youtube.com/watch?v=abc123" action: chapters input-schema: type: string description: "Action (summarize|transcript|chapters) followed by YouTube URL" output-schema: type: object properties: success: { type: boolean } action: { type: string } videoId: { type: string } summary: { type: object } transcript: { type: array } message: { type: string } model-hints: context-window: medium capability: text cost: low author: ChainlessChain license: MIT
YouTube Summarizer
Extract transcripts and generate summaries from YouTube videos.
Usage
/youtube-summarizer summarize <youtube-url> [--lang en]
/youtube-summarizer transcript <youtube-url>
/youtube-summarizer chapters <youtube-url>
Features
- Auto-detect video ID from various YouTube URL formats
- Extract auto-generated or manual captions
- Generate structured summaries with key points
- Topic-based chapter segmentation
- Timestamp-linked notes