YouTube research

Resolve YouTube videos and channels, and pull transcripts, comments, playlists, and search results as normalized JSON from the Crawlora API — no yt-dlp, no browser, no scraping.

When to use this skill

• The user pastes a YouTube URL and wants its transcript, summary, or stats.
• "Get the comments on this video" / "what are people saying?"
• "List this channel's recent videos / shorts / playlists."
• "Search YouTube for …" or "what videos exist about …".
• Building a transcript-based summary, sentiment, or research pipeline.

Setup (one-time)

• Get a free Crawlora API key (2,000 credits/mo, no card) at https://crawlora.net.
• Set CRAWLORA_API_KEY in the environment before running the helper.
• The helper reads CRAWLORA_API_KEY from the environment and sends requests to https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1. Missing/invalid key → 401.