This skill helps users extract structured video list data and comment data from YouTube using the BrowserAct API. The Agent should proactively apply this skill when users request searching for YouTube videos and their…
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name: youtube-comments-api-skill
description: "This skill helps users extract structured video list data and comment data from YouTube using the BrowserAct API. The Agent should proactively apply this skill when users request searching for YouTube videos and their comments, analyzing viewer sentiment for a specific video topic, gathering audience feedback on AI or automation, extracting a list of top videos and their viewer reactions, compiling YouTube video data along with user opinions, retrieving competitor video titles and related audience discussions, monitoring public response to specific YouTube search keywords, summarizing comments from search results for market research, tracking viewer engagement metrics and replies for trending topics, collecting YouTube video URLs and author details alongside community discussions, or automating the extraction of YouTube comments without manual scraping."
metadata: {"openclaw":{"emoji":"🌐","requires":{"bins":["python"],"env":["BROWSERACT_API_KEY"]}}}
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# YouTube Comments API Automation Skill
## 📖 Introduction
This skill provides a one-stop extraction service for YouTube video and comment data through the BrowserAct YouTube Comments API template. It can extract structured video results along with their respective comments directly from YouTube. By simply providing search keywords, comment limits, and scroll counts, you can acquire clean and ready-to-use video and comment datasets directly.
## ✨ Features
1. **Zero Hallucination, Ensuring Stable and Accurate Data Extraction**: Pre-configured workflows avoid AI generative hallucinations.
2. **No CAPTCHA Issues**: No need to handle reCAPTCHA or other verification challenges.
3. **No IP Access Restrictions or Geo-fencing**: No need to deal with regional IP limits.
4. **More Agile Execution Speed**: Faster task execution compared to pure AI-driven browser automation solutions.
5. **Extremely High Cost-Efficiency**: Significantly reduces data acquisition costs compared to AI solutions that consume a large number of tokens.
## 🔑 API Key Guidance Process
Before running, you must first check the `BROWSERACT_API_KEY` environment variable. If it is not set, do not take any other actions; you should request and wait for the user to provide it.
**At this point, the Agent must inform the user**:
> "Since you have not configured the BrowserAct API Key yet, please go to the [BrowserAct Console](https://www.browseract.com/reception/integrations) first to get your Key."
## 🛠️ Input Parameters
When invoking the script, the Agent should flexibly configure the following parameters based on user needs:… install to load the full skill