youtube-search

youtube-search is a skill for Claude Code from biggora/claude-plugins-registry. It costs 129 tokens per session (3,429 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for searching YouTube videos, channels, and playlists and extracting information such as transcripts, subtitles, and viewing statistics.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to locate videos or channels, retrieve transcripts, and collect metadata or analytics for further analysis.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents a defined way to find YouTube content and inspect it even when no special API key is available.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the project-delivery-orchestrator plugin — 34 skills, 1 command, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to locate videos or channels, retrieve transcripts, and collect metadata or analytics for further analysis.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/biggora/claude-plugins-registry/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 biggora/claude-plugins-registry --skill youtube-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/biggora/claude-plugins-registry

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install project-delivery-orchestrator, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 34 skills, 1 command, 5 agents.

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.

agentmods badge for youtube-search

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/biggora/claude-plugins-registry/youtube-search/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/biggora/claude-plugins-registry/youtube-search)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/biggora/claude-plugins-registry/youtube-search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/biggora/claude-plugins-registry/youtube-search/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for youtube-search

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/biggora/claude-plugins-registry/youtube-search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/biggora/claude-plugins-registry/youtube-search.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 129 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,429 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00129 $0.03429
Opus 5 $0.00064 $0.01715
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00686
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00343

Measured 9d ago against content hash ea4d2e78d906, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

youtube-search scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 9d ago.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

r = requests.get(f"{BASE}/search", params=params)
src/skills/youtube-search/SKILL.md · 412 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 412 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

YouTube Search Skill

Autonomous YouTube data retrieval for agents. No user intervention required.

Method Selection Guide

Choose based on what's configured in the project environment:

Situation Best Method
Deep scraping needed (default) Method Eyt-dlp (environment-dependent)
No API keys available Method Aweb_search built-in tool
YOUTUBE_API_KEY set Method B – YouTube Data API v3 (richest data)
SERPAPI_KEY set Method C – SerpAPI YouTube engine
Video ID known, need transcript Method Dyoutube-transcript-api

Start with Method A if you're unsure — it requires nothing and always works.


Method A: web_search tool (Zero Setup — Always Available)

Use the built-in web_search tool. Works without any API keys.

Video Search

web_search("site:youtube.com <your query>")

Channel Search

web_search("site:youtube.com/channel <channel name> OR site:youtube.com/@<handle>")

Advanced Filters via Query

# Recent videos (last year)
web_search("site:youtube.com <query> 2024 OR 2025")

# Tutorial videos
web_search("site:youtube.com <topic> tutorial OR guide OR обзор")

# Specific language
web_search("site:youtube.com <query> на русском")

What you get from web_search

  • Video title
  • Channel name
  • URL (extract video ID: youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID)
  • Snippet/description excerpt
  • Sometimes view count and publish date (in snippet)

Extract Video ID from URL

import re
url = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
video_id = re.search(r'v=([^&]+)', url).group(1)
# or from youtu.be links:
video_id = re.search(r'youtu\.be/([^?]+)', url).group(1)

Limitation: No structured JSON, metadata is text-parsed. For richer data, use Method B.


Requires: YOUTUBE_API_KEY environment variable (free, 10,000 units/day quota).
Get key: https://console.cloud.google.com → Enable "YouTube Data API v3" → Create API key.

Read the full file on GitHub · 412 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 9d ago First seen · 412 lines · 129 tokens per session scan A ea4d2e78d906

Subscribe to this mod's changes

youtube-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository biggora/claude-plugins-registry (2 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 129 tokens to every session and 3,429 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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