YouTube Video Summarizer

Summarize YouTube videos by extracting transcripts and providing intelligent summaries. Saves summaries to an Obsidian vault and opens a styled preview in the browser.

Prerequisites

The venv is already set up at ~/.claude/skills/youtube-summarize/venv with youtube-transcript-api installed.

Workflow

1. Extract video ID from the URL (supports youtube.com/watch, youtu.be, shorts)
2. Fetch transcript using scripts/get_transcript.py
3. Summarize the transcript based on user request
4. Save & Preview using scripts/save_summary.py - saves to Obsidian vault and opens styled HTML in browser

Scripts

Get Transcript