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Youtube Search API Skill

Category: Science & Research  ·  Sub-category: science-misc  ·  Last updated:
This skill helps users automatically extract structured data from YouTube search results using the BrowserAct API. The Agent should proactively apply this skill when users express needs like searching for YouTube videos by keywords, finding the latest YouTube Shorts for a specific topic, gathering YouTube channel data for competitor analysis, monitoring trending YouTube playlists, extracting YouTube search results for market research, tracking view counts for specific YouTube keywords, compiling a list of YouTube videos on a subject, discovering new YouTube content creators in a niche, searching YouTube for tutorial videos automatically, and retrieving structured YouTube search data without opening video pages.

What this skill does

Youtube Search API Skill is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the science-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/youtube-search-api-skill/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

Who uses this skill

The Youtube Search API Skill Claude Code skill is built for researchers, data scientists, academics, and analysts working with complex data and scientific literature. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 69,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

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

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

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

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

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Pro

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Attribution & license

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