YouTube Direct

Run the bundled executable for stateless YouTube search and extraction. It sends requests from the user's machine directly to YouTube; it is self-contained and requires Node.js 18.17 or newer.

Run an operation

Resolve scripts/youtube.mjs relative to this SKILL.md, then invoke it with Node.js. Use its absolute path when the user's working directory is elsewhere.

node <skill-directory>/scripts/youtube.mjs --help

Search before extraction when the user supplied a topic rather than a known resource ID: