YouTube Research

Multi-platform video research toolkit. Operates in two modes: toolkit (individual operations) and research (autonomous search-to-synthesis pipeline). All operations use a single CLI at ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/search-youtube/scripts/yt_research.py.

Run python3 ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/search-youtube/scripts/yt_research.py <subcommand> --help for full flag reference on any subcommand.

Toolkit Mode

Invoke individual subcommands for targeted operations. Default mode when the user requests a specific action (transcript, search, metadata, audio, channel scan).

Search

Find videos matching a query. Returns structured results with metadata.