Youtube Fetch

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: Content · Sub-category: content-misc

Fetch YouTube video content: transcript, metadata, description. Use when: user shares a YouTube URL and wants to know what the video is about, asks for a summary, wants key points extracted, or wants to understand the content without watching. Also use when asked to ingest a YouTube video into the knowledge base.

What this skill does

Youtube Fetch is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the content-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/youtube-fetch/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when: user shares a YouTube URL and wants to know what the video is about, asks for a summary, wants key points extracted, or wants to understand the content without watching. Also use when asked to ingest a YouTube video into the knowledge base.

Who uses this skill

The Youtube Fetch skill is built for content creators, marketers, copywriters, SEO professionals, and editorial teams. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/youtube-fetch
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/youtube-fetch/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/youtube-fetch/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/youtube-fetch/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/youtube-fetch/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\youtube-fetch\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.