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youtube-full — Claude Code plugin: what it does, how to install

Fetches YouTube transcripts, queries videos, parses playlists, and tracks channel uploads. Runs on open tools without an API key.

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/plugin marketplace add alirezarezvani/claude-skills
/plugin install youtube-full@claude-code-skills
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What youtube-full does

The plugin handles YouTube search, playlist extraction, transcript downloads, and new upload tracking in Claude Code. It relies on open-source utilities: yt-dlp, youtube-transcript-api, and YouTube RSS feeds.

You do not need an account or platform API credentials to fetch public metadata. A hosted transcript API exists only as an optional user-selected fallback when needed.

What it helps with

  • pull video transcripts without proprietary API tokens
  • extract items from YouTube playlists via yt-dlp
  • monitor new channel uploads using RSS feeds
  • search for YouTube videos directly in the agent workspace

Example prompts for the agent

  • Search YouTube for recent tutorials about Rust memory management
  • Fetch the transcript for video ID dQw4w9WgXcQ using youtube-transcript-api
  • List the latest videos from this channel RSS feed

How to install youtube-full

Plugin marketplace

/plugin marketplace add alirezarezvani/claude-skills
/plugin install youtube-full@claude-code-skills

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Questions about youtube-full

How to install youtube-full in Claude Code?

Add the marketplace source with /plugin marketplace add alirezarezvani/claude-skills, then run /plugin install youtube-full@claude-code-skills.

Does youtube-full require a YouTube API key?

No API key is needed. It operates via yt-dlp, youtube-transcript-api, and public RSS feeds.

What tools does the plugin use to extract data?

It relies on open-source packages yt-dlp and youtube-transcript-api alongside YouTube RSS streams.

Source text

youtube-full · MIT
YouTube transcripts, video search, channel browsing, playlist extraction, and upload monitoring with open-source tools (yt-dlp, youtube-transcript-api, RSS). No API key needed.

© therohitdas · MIT · alirezarezvani/claude-skills

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