brightdata-youtube

brightdata-youtube is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Buzzmatic/awesome-agent-skills. It costs 78 tokens per session (1,885 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for collecting YouTube videos, channel details, comments, search results, Shorts, and transcripts through Bright Data's data service.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to monitor channels, study comments and engagement, search videos, or extract transcript text.
Why use it?
It removes the need to gather and organize YouTube data manually.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to monitor channels, study comments and engagement, search videos, or extract transcript text.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/buzzmatic/awesome-agent-skills/brightdata-youtube
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 Buzzmatic/awesome-agent-skills --skill brightdata-youtube
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Buzzmatic/awesome-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,885 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 $0.00078 $0.01885
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00942
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00377
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00188

Measured 9d ago against content hash 0cb343137f8b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brightdata-youtube 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/fetch.py, scripts/status.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.

skills/brightdata-youtube/SKILL.md · 241 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 241 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

BrightData YouTube Scraper

YouTube data collection using BrightData's Datasets API. All operations save results to disk and return summaries to context.

Quick Start

Single Video:

python skills/brightdata-youtube/scripts/fetch.py \
  --endpoint videos \
  --input "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"

Channel Info:

python skills/brightdata-youtube/scripts/fetch.py \
  --endpoint channels \
  --input "https://www.youtube.com/@brightdata"

Channel by Name (no URL needed):

python skills/brightdata-youtube/scripts/fetch.py \
  --endpoint channels \
  --channel-name "brightdata"

Search YouTube:

python skills/brightdata-youtube/scripts/fetch.py \
  --endpoint search \
  --keyword "SEO tutorial" \
  --pages-to-search 3 \
  --type video

Comments from Video:

python skills/brightdata-youtube/scripts/fetch.py \
  --endpoint comments \
  --input "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ" \
  --num-of-comments 50

YouTube Short:

python skills/brightdata-youtube/scripts/fetch.py \
  --endpoint shorts \
  --input "https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SXHMnicI6Pg"

Video Transcript:

python skills/brightdata-youtube/scripts/fetch.py \
  --endpoint transcripts \
  --input "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ" \
  --language en

Available Endpoints

Endpoint Dataset ID Input Type Description
videos gd_lk5ns7kz21pck8jpis Video URLs Collect video data by URL
channels gd_ytc26hd9r2fhaq2i0g Channel URLs or name Collect channel data
comments gd_lk5ns7kz21pck8jpis Video URLs Collect comments from a video
search gd_lwdb9kf1cj0lf1doa0 Keyword or search URL Search YouTube
shorts gd_lz29oxyn3ry9mfpbs Shorts URLs Collect YouTube Shorts data
transcripts gd_lz2915ty3pd2o05i2m Video URLs Collect video transcripts/subtitles

Read the full file on GitHub · 241 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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 · 241 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 0cb343137f8b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

brightdata-youtube is a skill published in the GitHub repository Buzzmatic/awesome-agent-skills (1 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 1,885 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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