youtube-search

youtube-search is a skill for Claude Code from AZIO-126/azio-vault-os. It costs 110 tokens per session (930 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for searching YouTube videos and returning structured details such as titles, channels, views, subscribers, duration, upload dates, and links.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find videos for research, discover channels, compare audience response, or collect video information for a knowledge base.
Why use it?
It removes the need to inspect search results one by one and can narrow results by date or number while showing a views-to-subscribers engagement ratio.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it to find videos for research, discover channels, compare audience response, or collect video information for a knowledge base.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/azio-126/azio-vault-os/youtube-search
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add AZIO-126/azio-vault-os --skill youtube-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AZIO-126/azio-vault-os

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 110 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 930 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00110 $0.00930
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.00465
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00186
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00093

Measured 12d ago against content hash 259e5dca5e91, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

youtube-search scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/youtube_search.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

vault-template/.claude/skills/youtube-search/SKILL.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

YouTube Search Skill

Search YouTube for videos and extract rich metadata including engagement metrics, channel info, and performance data. Perfect for research, content discovery, and feeding data into knowledge bases like NotebookLM.

What this skill does

  • Searches YouTube for videos matching your query
  • Extracts structured metadata: title, channel, views, subscribers, duration, upload date, URL
  • Calculates engagement ratio (views-to-subscribers) to surface high-impact content
  • Returns results in beautifully formatted output with human-readable numbers and dividers
  • Filters results by date range (default: last 6 months)
  • Returns top 20 results by default

How to use

Basic search

youtube-search "your search query"

Search specific date range

youtube-search "your search query" --months 12

Search all time

youtube-search "your search query" --months 0

Limit results

youtube-search "your search query" --limit 10

Output format

Each result displays:

  • Title — Video name
  • Channel — Creator name
  • Views — Total views (human-readable: 1.2M, 543K, etc.)
  • Subscribers — Channel subscriber count
  • Engagement — Views-to-subscribers ratio (shows video reach relative to channel size)
  • Duration — Video length in MM:SS format
  • Upload Date — When video was published
  • URL — Direct link to video

Results are separated by dividers for easy scanning.

Implementation

The skill uses yt-dlp to search YouTube and parse video metadata. It:

  1. Searches YouTube with the query
  2. Filters results by date (last 6 months by default)
  3. Extracts metadata: title, channel, stats, duration, upload date
  4. Calculates engagement ratio (views ÷ subscribers)
  5. Formats output with dividers, human-readable numbers (1.5M, 420K, etc.)
  6. Sorts by views (descending) by default

Requirements

  • yt-dlp installed (pip install yt-dlp)
  • Python 3.7+
  • Internet connection

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 111 lines · 110 tokens per session scan A 259e5dca5e91

Subscribe to this mod's changes

youtube-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository AZIO-126/azio-vault-os (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 110 tokens to every session and 930 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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