YouTube Watcher

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    "changelog": "Initial release of youtube-watcher.\n\n- Fetch and read transcripts from YouTube videos.\n- Summarize videos, answer questions, or extract specific information from transcripts.\n- Trigger phrases include: \"watch youtube\", \"summarize video\", \"video transcript\", \"youtube summary\", and \"analyze video\".\n- Requires installation of `yt-dlp` for transcript retrieval.\n- Only works with videos that have closed captions or auto-generated subtitles.",
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    "readme": "---\nname: youtube-watcher\ndescription: Fetch and read transcripts from YouTube videos. Use when you need to summarize a video, answer questions about its content, or extract information from it.\nauthor: michael gathara\nversion: 1.0.0\ntriggers:\n  - \"watch youtube\"\n  - \"summarize video\"\n  - \"video transcript\"\n  - \"youtube summary\"\n  - \"analyze video\"\nmetadata: {\"clawdbot\":{\"emoji\":\"📺\",\"requires\":{\"bins\":[\"yt-dlp\"]},\"install\":[{\"id\":\"brew\",\"kind\":\"brew\",\"formula\":\"yt-dlp\",\"bins\":[\"yt-dlp\"],\"label\":\"Install yt-dlp (brew)\"},{\"id\":\"pip\",\"kind\":\"pip\",\"package\":\"yt-dlp\",\"bins\":[\"yt-dlp\"],\"label\":\"Install yt-dlp (pip)\"}]}}\n---\n\n# YouTube Watcher\n\nFetch transcripts from YouTube videos to enable summarization, QA, and content extraction.\n\n## Usage\n\n### Get Transcript\n\nRetrieve the text transcript of a video.\n\n```bash\npython3 {baseDir}/scripts/get_transcript.py \"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID\"\n```\n\n## Examples\n\n**Summarize a video:**\n\n1. Get the transcript:\n   ```bash\n   python3 {baseDir}/scripts/get_transcript.py \"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ\"\n   ```\n2. Read the output and summarize it for the user.\n\n**Find specific information:**\n\n1. Get the transcript.\n2. Search the text for keywords or answer the user's question based on the content.\n\n## Notes\n\n- Requires `yt-dlp` to be installed and available in the PATH.\n- Works with videos that have closed captions (CC) or auto-generated subtitles.\n- If a video has no subtitles, the script will fail with an error message.\n"
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