YouTube Playlist Browser

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Listing every video in a YouTube playlist from a pasted link or ID
• Working through a course or series playlist for transcripts or research
• Finding a channel's playlists and then browsing one of them
• Paging through a long playlist beyond its first batch of videos

Example prompts

• “Get every video from the Python course playlist on this channel and pull the transcript of the first three.”
• “Show me the playlists on this channel, then list the videos in the one about machine learning.”
• “Page through the whole uploads playlist and tell me how many videos it holds.”
• “Work through the lecture series playlist and summarize each video from its transcript.”

Requirements

• A TRANSCRIPT_API_KEY for TranscriptAPI.com
• Internet access to reach transcriptapi.com
• Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Requires internet access to reach transcriptapi.com. No additional runtimes or dependencies needed.

Workflow steps

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

1. 1First request: ?playlist=PLxxx — returns first 100 videos + continuation_token
2. 2Next request: ?continuation=TOKEN — returns next 100 + new token
3. 3Repeat until has_more: false or continuation_token: null

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 4f7994b. 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

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are http and json).

  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:

  • transcriptapi.com
  • youtube.com

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

• Credentials

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

  • TRANSCRIPT_API_KEY

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

• Compatibility

  Requires internet access to reach transcriptapi.com. No additional runtimes or dependencies needed.

  From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

YouTube Playlist Browser loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs, and up to ~3.6k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 83 tokens; SKILL.md has 313 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~83

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.5k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~3.6k

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

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); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills at commit 4f7994b, republished under its MIT licence (© ZeroPointRepo). 313 words, ~1,512 tokens.

name

youtube-playlist

description

Use when a YouTube playlist is involved: pasted playlist links or IDs, requests to list playlist videos, browse playlist contents, or work through a playlist for transcripts or research. Also use when the user wants all videos from a series, course, or collection. Not for creating playlists or account management.

compatibility

Requires internet access to reach transcriptapi.com. No additional runtimes or dependencies needed.

version

1.6.0

user-invocable

true

# First page
GET https://transcriptapi.com/api/v2/youtube/playlist/videos?playlist=PL_PLAYLIST_ID
Authorization: Bearer $TRANSCRIPT_API_KEY
User-Agent: YourAgent/1.0

# Next pages
GET https://transcriptapi.com/api/v2/youtube/playlist/videos?continuation=TOKEN
Authorization: Bearer $TRANSCRIPT_API_KEY
User-Agent: YourAgent/1.0

{
  "results": [
    {
      "videoId": "abc123xyz00",
      "title": "Playlist Video Title",
      "channelId": "UCuAXFkgsw1L7xaCfnd5JJOw",
      "channelTitle": "Channel Name",
      "channelHandle": "@handle",
      "lengthText": "10:05",
      "viewCountText": "1.5M views",
      "thumbnails": [{ "url": "...", "width": 120, "height": 90 }],
      "index": "0"
    }
  ],
  "playlist_info": {
    "title": "Best Science Talks",
    "numVideos": "47",
    "description": "Top science presentations",
    "ownerName": "TED",
    "viewCount": "5000000"
  },
  "continuation_token": "4qmFsgKlARIYVVV1...",
  "has_more": true
}

# 1. List playlist videos
GET https://transcriptapi.com/api/v2/youtube/playlist/videos?playlist=PL_PLAYLIST_ID
Authorization: Bearer $TRANSCRIPT_API_KEY
User-Agent: YourAgent/1.0

# 2. Get transcript from a video in the playlist
GET https://transcriptapi.com/api/v2/youtube/transcript?video_url=VIDEO_ID&format=text&include_timestamp=true&send_metadata=true
Authorization: Bearer $TRANSCRIPT_API_KEY
User-Agent: YourAgent/1.0

# 1. List the channel's playlists
GET https://transcriptapi.com/api/v2/youtube/channel/playlists?channel=@TED
Authorization: Bearer $TRANSCRIPT_API_KEY
User-Agent: YourAgent/1.0

# 2. List videos in the chosen playlist (playlistId from step 1)
GET https://transcriptapi.com/api/v2/youtube/playlist/videos?playlist=PLAYLIST_ID
Authorization: Bearer $TRANSCRIPT_API_KEY
User-Agent: YourAgent/1.0

© ZeroPointRepo, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (references) in skills/youtube-playlist of ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills.

• SKILL.md
• references/auth-setup.md
• references/curl-examples.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 4f7994b

Used in 1 other repository

We found 2 copies of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

• hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-pluginsplugins/ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills/skills/youtube-playlist