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Agent skill

Youtube Video API Skill

by browser-act in browser-act/skills

This skill helps users automatically extract channel-level and video detail data from a specific YouTube channel via BrowserAct API.

MITAuto-check passedWriting & Content

Install Youtube Video API Skill

skills CLI
$ npx skills add browser-act/skills --skill youtube-video-api-skill -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install browser-act/skills youtube-video-api-skill --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/browser-act/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/solutions/video-platforms/youtube-video-api-skill .claude/skills/youtube-video-api-skill && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
youtube-video-api-skill
GitHub stars
6.1k
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
733 words
Files
2 (incl. scripts)
Skills in repo
87
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

This skill helps users automatically extract channel-level and video detail data from a specific YouTube channel via BrowserAct API.

  • Works in 5 steps: No hallucinations, ensuring stable and… → No CAPTCHA issues: No need to handle… → No IP access restrictions and… → …
  • Tasks that involve Web scraping
  • SKILL.md covers 📖 Introduction, ✨ Features, 🔑 API Key Guidance Flow and 🛠️ Input Parameters, plus 4 more sections
  • Runs Python scripts from its folder; calls python; reaches youtube.com; needs BROWSERACT_API_KEY

What it does

Youtube Video API Skill is an agent skill from browser-act/skills. 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…

Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including scripts (for example `scripts/youtube_video_api.py`).

It sits in Writing & Content, covering Web scraping and Content strategy. It works with YouTube. The repository describes itself as: Browser automation CLI built for AI agents. Break through anti-bot walls, hand off to humans across platforms when stuck. Parallel multi-task execution, independent multi-session… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Web scraping
  • Tasks that involve Content strategy

Example prompts

  • “/youtube-video-api-skill”

Requirements

  • Python 3
  • A credential in BROWSERACT_API_KEY

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  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…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 11c057b. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Ships 1 file in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • python

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

    • youtube.com

    Also links to:

    • browseract.com

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

    • BROWSERACT_API_KEY

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Youtube Video API Skill loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 182 tokens; SKILL.md has 733 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~182
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.6k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from browser-act/skills at commit 11c057b, republished under its MIT licence (© browser-act). 733 words, ~1,569 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/youtube-video-api-skill/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
youtube-video-api-skill
description
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 signals across a full channel, and downloading structured YouTube video details without manual scraping.

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. You should request and wait for the user to provide it collaboratively. The Agent must inform the user at this time:

"Since you have not configured the BrowserAct API Key yet, please go to the BrowserAct Console first to get your Key."

🛠️ Input Parameters

When calling the script, the Agent should flexibly configure the following parameters based on user needs:

  1. YouTube_channel_url

    • Type: string
    • Description: Target YouTube channel URL used to load the channel video list.
    • Example: https://www.youtube.com/@BrowserAct

  2. Video_type

    • Type: string
    • Description: Which ordering mode to use when traversing the channel video list.
    • Optional Values:
      • Latest
      • Popular
      • Earliest
    • Default: Popular

🚀 Invocation Method

The Agent should implement "one command gets results" by executing the following independent script:

bash
# Invocation example
python -u ./scripts/youtube_video_api.py "YouTube_channel_url" "Video_type"
⏳ Running Status Monitoring

Since this task involves automated browser operations, it may take a long time (several minutes). The script will continuously output status logs with timestamps (e.g., [14:30:05] Task Status: running) while running. Agent Instructions:

  • While waiting for the script to return results, please keep an eye on the terminal output.
  • As long as the terminal is still outputting new status logs, it means the task is running normally. Do not misjudge it as a deadlock or unresponsiveness.
  • If the status remains unchanged for a long time or the script stops outputting and no result is returned, the retry mechanism can be considered.

📊 Data Output Description

After successful execution, the script will parse and print the results directly from the API response. The results include:

Channel fields
  • channel_title: Channel name displayed on the channel page
  • channel_url: Channel URL
  • subscribers: Subscriber count shown on the channel page
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Video fields
  • video_title: Video title shown on the video page
  • video_url: Video URL
  • publish_date: Published date or time shown on YouTube
  • view_count: View count shown on YouTube
  • video_duration: Video duration
  • comment_count: Total number of comments (if available)
  • like_count: Like count (if available)

⚠️ Error Handling & Retry

During script execution, if an error occurs (such as network fluctuation or task failure), the Agent should follow the logic below:

  1. Check the output content:

    • If the output contains "Invalid authorization", it means the API Key is invalid or expired. At this time, do not retry, but guide the user to recheck and provide the correct API Key.
    • If the output does not contain "Invalid authorization" but the task execution fails (for example, the output starts with Error: or the return result is empty), the Agent should automatically try to execute the script once more.

  2. Retry limits:

    • Automatic retry is limited to once. If the second attempt still fails, stop retrying and report the specific error information to the user.

🌟 Typical Use Cases

  1. Competitor Tracking: Track performance trends and posting cadence of a competitor's channel.
  2. Creator Research: Analyze engagement signals and popular videos of content creators.
  3. Content Ops Reporting: Monitor channel videos and performance metrics for reporting.
  4. Growth Analytics: Understand what video types (Latest/Popular) drive growth.
  5. Database Automation: Send channel videos directly into CRM or databases without manual export.
  6. Market Research: Aggregate video metrics across different channels in a specific industry.
  7. Trend Spotting: Identify the most popular videos on specific tech or gaming channels.
  8. Audience Engagement Analysis: Correlate subscriber counts with video views and likes.
  9. Content Strategy: Review a channel's earliest videos to understand their origin and growth path.
  10. Automated Social Monitoring: Keep tabs on new content released by key industry leaders.

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Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (scripts) in solutions/video-platforms/youtube-video-api-skill of browser-act/skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • scripts/youtube_video_api.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 11c057b

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in browser-act/skills, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Questions about Youtube Video API Skill

What does Youtube Video API Skill do?

This skill helps users automatically extract channel-level and video detail data from a specific YouTube channel via BrowserAct API. Youtube Video API Skill is an agent skill from browser-act/skills. This skill helps users automatically extract channel-level and video detail data from a specific YouTube channel via BrowserAct API.

When should I use Youtube Video API Skill?

Youtube Video API Skill fits situations like: tasks that involve Web scraping; tasks that involve Content strategy.

How do I install Youtube Video API Skill in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add browser-act/skills --skill youtube-video-api-skill -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (solutions/video-platforms/youtube-video-api-skill in browser-act/skills) into .claude/skills/youtube-video-api-skill in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Youtube Video API Skill in Codex?

Run `npx skills add browser-act/skills --skill youtube-video-api-skill -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (solutions/video-platforms/youtube-video-api-skill in browser-act/skills) into .agents/skills/youtube-video-api-skill in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Youtube Video API Skill in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add browser-act/skills --skill youtube-video-api-skill -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/youtube-video-api-skill, .gemini/skills/youtube-video-api-skill, .github/skills/youtube-video-api-skill and .opencode/skills/youtube-video-api-skill in your project.

What does Youtube Video API Skill need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Youtube Video API Skill needs Python for the scripts in its folder, the command-line tools its instructions call (python) and credentials named BROWSERACT_API_KEY. Our summary lists: Python 3; A credential in BROWSERACT_API_KEY.

Does Youtube Video API Skill access the network?

SKILL.md names 2 domains. In commands or code: youtube.com; the agent is likely to contact it when it follows the instructions. As links in the text: browseract.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Youtube Video API Skill safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does Youtube Video API Skill use?

Youtube Video API Skill is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Youtube Video API Skill use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Youtube Video API Skill?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Youtube Video API Skill: Yt Research (jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace, 2.8k stars), Apify Trend Analysis (majiayu000/claude-skill-registry, 666 stars), Youtube (AgriciDaniel/claude-youtube, 431 stars) and Caption Writer (stevenflanagan1/social-ai-team, 241 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Youtube Video API Skill?

browser-act (a GitHub organization) maintains it in browser-act/skills, which has 6,114 GitHub stars. The repository holds 87 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 24, 2026.

Source: browser-act/skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.