youtube

youtube is a skill for Claude Code from TikHub/tikhub-plugin. It costs 55 tokens per session (717 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A connection to YouTube through TikHub for retrieving video details, streams, captions, comments, channel information, and search results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect videos or channels, retrieve captions, collect comments and replies, find search results, or obtain available video stream URLs.
Why use it?
It gathers different kinds of YouTube data through one interface, so you do not need separate methods for videos, channels, subtitles, and comments.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the tikhub-plugin plugin — 19 skills, 7 MCP servers shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tikhub/tikhub-plugin/youtube
Any agent
npx skills add TikHub/tikhub-plugin --skill youtube
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TikHub/tikhub-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install tikhub-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 7 MCP servers.

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

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tikhub/tikhub-plugin/youtube.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/tikhub/tikhub-plugin/youtube)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tikhub/tikhub-plugin/youtube"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tikhub/tikhub-plugin/youtube.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 717 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00055 $0.00717
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00358
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00143
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00072

Measured 6d ago against content hash bbcd3718cb27, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

youtube 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 6d 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 "https://api.tikhub.io/api/v1/youtube/web_v2/get_video_info?video_id=dQw4w9WgXcQ" \
skills/youtube/SKILL.md · 58 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

YouTube (via TikHub)

Deep coverage of YouTube via the Web-V2 API. Exhaustive endpoints: tikhub-find-endpoint "<goal>" --platform youtube.

Setup gate

[ -z "${TIKHUB_API_KEY:-}" ] && echo "Set TIKHUB_API_KEY first (see tikhub-onboarding)."

Coverage: YouTube-Web-V2. (The older YouTube-Web API is de-scoped — reach it via discovery.)

Key endpoints

Goal Method + path Key params
Video info GET /api/v1/youtube/web_v2/get_video_info video_id, language_code
Video info by URL GET /api/v1/youtube/web_v2/get_video_info_v2 video_url
Download streams GET /api/v1/youtube/web_v2/get_video_streams_v2 video_id | video_url
Captions/subtitles GET /api/v1/youtube/web_v2/get_video_captions video_id, language_code, format
Video comments GET /api/v1/youtube/web_v2/get_video_comments video_id, sort_by, continuation_token
Comment replies GET /api/v1/youtube/web_v2/get_video_comment_replies continuation_token
Channel id (from URL) GET /api/v1/youtube/web_v2/get_channel_id channel_url
Channel info GET /api/v1/youtube/web_v2/get_channel_description channel_id, continuation_token
General search GET /api/v1/youtube/web_v2/get_general_search search_query, upload_time
Shorts search GET /api/v1/youtube/web_v2/get_shorts_search search_query, upload_time

Example

curl -s "https://api.tikhub.io/api/v1/youtube/web_v2/get_video_info?video_id=dQw4w9WgXcQ" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TIKHUB_API_KEY"

Pagination

Comments, replies, channel feeds, and the *_v2 search endpoints use continuation_token — pass the token from the previous response; stop when none is returned. Each page is billed — cap it.

Hand off to task skills

  • Download videos / captions → social-media-downloader
  • Analyze a channel → creator-analytics
  • Comment mining → comments-analysis
  • Search/listening → social-listening
  • Large pulls → bulk-data-export

Read the full file on GitHub · 58 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. 6d ago First seen · 58 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A bbcd3718cb27

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youtube is a skill published in the GitHub repository TikHub/tikhub-plugin (6 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 717 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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