youtube-analysis

Extract transcripts from YouTube videos and produce structured concept analysis — key ideas, arguments, technical terms, takeaways, and multi-level summaries — all without API keys or MCP servers.

| scripts/fetchtranscript.py | Core transcript + metadata fetcher (CLI + importable) | | scripts/analyzevideo.py | Orchestrator: fetch → structure → export scaffold | | scripts/utils.py | URL parsing, timestamp formatting, transcript chunking | | references/analysis-patterns.md | Prompt patterns for each video type |

Use scripts/utils.py:parseyoutubeurl() to extract the video ID. Supported formats:

Extract YouTube video transcripts and produce structured concept analysis with multi-level summaries, key concepts, and actionable takeaways. Pure Python, no API keys, no MCP dependency. Fetches transcripts via youtube-transcript-api with yt-dlp fallback, then Claude analyzes the content directly. Use this skill when the user mentions: analyze youtube video, youtube transcript, summarize this video, what does this video cover, extract concepts from video, video analysis, watch this for me, break down this talk, youtube URL, video summary, lecture notes from video, podcast transcript, conference talk notes, tech talk breakdown, video key points, TL;DR of video, video takeaways, or pastes any URL containing youtube.com or youtu.be. Source: mathews-tom/praxis-skills.