youtube-video-channel

youtube-video-channel is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mrocker/social-data-mcp. It costs 75 tokens per session (734 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for retrieving YouTube video and channel data, including views, duration, publishing dates, keywords, subscribers, and recent videos.

In plain words
What is it for?
Collecting channel videos, checking subscriber counts, filtering videos by views or duration, and analysing video metadata.
Why use it?
It avoids the setup and quota limits of the YouTube Data API while returning current figures for supplied links or handles.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Collecting channel videos, checking subscriber counts, filtering videos by views or duration, and analysing video metadata.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mrocker/social-data-mcp/youtube-video-channel
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 mrocker/social-data-mcp --skill youtube-video-channel
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mrocker/social-data-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 734 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 $0.00075 $0.00734
Opus 5.5 $0.00030 $0.00294
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00147
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00073

Measured 22d ago against content hash 8b85d86b1256, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

youtube-video-channel 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 22d 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.

curl -s -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/nick.cheng~youtube-video-channel-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
skills/youtube-video-channel/SKILL.md · 49 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 49 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

YouTube videos & channels

Pay-per-result Apify Actor nick.cheng/youtube-video-channel-scraper. No API key, no OAuth, no quota. Charges only for rows that came back ($0.015/video, $0.005/channel — same on every plan). Needs APIFY_TOKEN (free account: https://console.apify.com/account/integrations).

When to use

  • "Stats for these video links" → videoUrls
  • "Latest videos from these channels" → channelUrls + maxVideosPerChannel
  • "Subscriber count only" → channelUrls + maxVideosPerChannel: 0
  • "Stats and what is said in the video" → add includeSubtitles: true (no extra charge). Transcripts only, no stats: use nick.cheng/youtube-transcript-scraper ($0.005 per transcript; see the youtube-transcripts skill)
  • "Only videos over N views / longer than M seconds / with a word in the title" → minViews, minDurationSeconds, maxDurationSeconds, publishedAfter, titleContains (screened before the page is fetched; filtered videos are not charged)

Call it

curl -s -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/nick.cheng~youtube-video-channel-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"channelUrls":["@NASA"],"maxVideosPerChannel":5,"minViews":100000}'

Or as an MCP tool: https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=nick.cheng/youtube-video-channel-scraper.

Output rows

  • itemType: "video" — videoId, url, title, description, durationSeconds, viewCount, likesLabel (YouTube's rounded label; exact likes are not exposed to logged-out clients), publishedAt, channelId, channelName, keywords, category, availableCaptions; with includeSubtitles also transcript, transcriptLanguage, transcriptType (manual / auto-generated), subtitles[].segments ({start, end, text}), subtitlesNote
  • itemType: "channel" — channelId, channelName, handle, subscribersLabel, videoCountLabel, description, keywords, and contact details the owner published in the description: emails, phones, externalLinks, linkInBio, otherSocials (the CAPTCHA-gated "View email address" is not touched)
  • error: true, chargedForThis: false — unavailable video/channel, reason given

Read the full file on GitHub · 49 lines

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. 22d ago Changed · +5 lines · +14 tokens per session 8b85d86b1256
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 44 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 474d73230c51

Subscribe to this mod's changes

youtube-video-channel is a skill published in the GitHub repository mrocker/social-data-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 734 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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