video-data

video-data is a skill for Claude Code from oxylabs/agent-skills. It costs 65 tokens per session (1,543 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A service for extracting YouTube information as structured data, including video details, subtitles, search results, and channel data. It can also download video or audio files through rotating proxies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search YouTube, retrieve metadata or closed captions, inspect channels and playlists, suggest keywords, or download video and audio.
Why use it?
It avoids manually collecting YouTube pages and provides a way to handle downloads and rate limits through proxy services.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the oxylabs plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to search YouTube, retrieve metadata or closed captions, inspect channels and playlists, suggest keywords, or download video and audio.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/oxylabs/agent-skills/video-data
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 oxylabs/agent-skills --skill video-data
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oxylabs/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install oxylabs, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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 video-data

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/oxylabs/agent-skills/video-data/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/oxylabs/agent-skills/video-data)
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.

agentmods 80×15 button for video-data

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,543 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 28
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 71
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00065 $0.01543
Opus 5.5 $0.00026 $0.00617
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00309
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00154

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 8ca84672384c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

video-data 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 1mo 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 -u "$OXY_WSA_USERNAME:$OXY_WSA_PASSWORD" ...
skills/video-data/SKILL.md · 176 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 176 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Oxylabs Video Data

YouTube data extraction via API and high-bandwidth proxies for video/audio downloading.

Two Approaches

Method Use Case
Video Data API Metadata, subtitles, search results (structured data)
High-Bandwidth Proxies Video/audio downloads with yt-dlp

Video Data API

Uses the same endpoint as Web Scraper API with YouTube-specific sources.

Endpoint

POST https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries   # immediate metadata/search/subtitle responses
POST https://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries       # Push-Pull downloads, callbacks, storage
Content-Type: application/json

Authentication

curl -u "$OXY_WSA_USERNAME:$OXY_WSA_PASSWORD" ...

Available Sources

Source Description
youtube_search Search results up to 20 items (videos, channels, playlists)
youtube_search_max Search results up to 700 items
youtube_metadata Video metadata (title, views, likes, description)
youtube_subtitles Closed captions/subtitles
youtube_channel Channel data and video lists
youtube_autocomplete Keyword suggestions
youtube_video_trainability AI training permission status
youtube_download Push-Pull video/audio download to cloud storage

Source Parameters

Source Required Common optional parameters
youtube_search, youtube_search_max query upload_date, type, duration, sort_by, 360, 3d, 4k, creative_commons, hd, hdr, live, location, purchased, subtitles, vr180
youtube_metadata query, parse: true callback_url; do not use render
youtube_channel channel_handle, parse: true limit, callback_url
youtube_subtitles query, context.language_code context.subtitle_origin: auto_generated or uploader_provided; callback_url
youtube_autocomplete query location country code, language, callback_url
youtube_video_trainability video_id callback_url
youtube_download query, storage_type, storage_url callback_url, context.download_type, context.video_quality, context.start_at, context.end_at

Read the full file on GitHub · 176 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. 1mo ago First seen · 176 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 8ca84672384c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

video-data is a skill published in the GitHub repository oxylabs/agent-skills (876 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 1,543 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 2026-08-30.

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