Youtube Transcript Extractor Api Skill

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name: youtube-transcript-extractor-api-skill
description: "This skill helps users automatically extract YouTube video transcripts and metadata via the BrowserAct API. The Agent should proactively apply this skill when users express needs like extracting full transcript from a specific YouTube video, getting subtitles and metadata for video content analysis, gathering video titles and likes counts, summarizing YouTube videos without watching them, collecting channel details from a video URL, tracking transcript automation for specific videos, scraping YouTube subtitles for internal knowledge bases, fetching full video content for AI summarization pipelines, downloading structured transcripts from YouTube links, analyzing video text content for media research, monitoring video publisher information and channel links, or building datasets from YouTube video transcripts."
metadata: {"openclaw":{"emoji":"🌐","requires":{"bins":["python"],"env":["BROWSERACT_API_KEY"]}}}
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# YouTube Transcript Extractor API Skill

## 📖 Introduction
This skill provides a one-stop video transcript extraction service using BrowserAct's YouTube Transcript Extractor API template. It can directly extract full video transcripts and metadata from any YouTube video. By simply providing the TargetURL, you can get clean, ready-to-use transcript and metadata.

## ✨ Features
1. **No hallucinations, ensuring stable and accurate data extraction**: Pre-set workflows avoid generative AI hallucinations.
2. **No CAPTCHA issues**: No need to handle reCAPTCHA or other verification challenges.
3. **No IP access restrictions or geofencing**: No need to deal with regional IP limits.
4. **Faster execution**: Compared to pure AI-driven browser automation solutions, task execution is much faster.
5. **High cost-effectiveness**: Significantly reduces data acquisition costs compared to AI solutions that consume large amounts of tokens.

## 🔑 API Key Setup
Before running, you must check the `BROWSERACT_API_KEY` environment variable. If it is not set, do not take any other actions; you must request and wait for the user to provide it.
**The Agent must inform the user at this point**:
> "Since you haven't configured the BrowserAct API Key yet, please go to the [BrowserAct Console](https://www.browseract.com/reception/integrations) to get your Key first."

## 🛠️ Input Parameters
The Agent should configure the following parameter based on the user's needs when calling the script:
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