ClawHub YouTube Skills Directory: Skills for Transcripts, Downloads, Analytics & More
YouTube is by far the most represented platform on ClawHub. There are dedicated YouTube skills — more than any other single platform — spanning transcript extraction, video downloads, channel analytics, content creation, and publishing pipelines. Here's the complete breakdown.
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Data Overview
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Total dedicated skills | 184 |
| Active (with ≥1 install) | 59 |
| Zero installs | 125 |
| Skills with ≥10 installs | 11 |
| Top by installs | youtube-transcript () |
| Top by downloads | openclaw-youtube-transcript () |
Note on
openclaw-youtube-transcript: Its 31,899 downloads come from being bundled as a dependency, not direct installs. It carries a privacy-risk tag for undisclosed telemetry. For transcript work, use youtube-transcript or youtube-watcher instead.
1. Transcript Extraction & Summarization
The most-installed category by a wide margin. If you need to read, summarize, or process YouTube video content, start here.
Zero-install transcript tools (50+ skills): There are over 50 additional transcript/summarization skills with zero installs — youtube-transcriber, youtube-asr-summarize, gladia-youtube-transcribe, youtube-transcript-api, ytb-transcript-long, yt-transcript, extract-youtube-transcript, youmind-youtube-transcript, and many more. Most are thin wrappers around the same APIs. The market is saturated — if you're building here, differentiate or don't bother.
2. Video Download
yt-dlp powers almost all of these. Solid category with real install numbers.
yt-dlp-downloader-skill is the clear winner here with 35 installs. Note that it works for far more than just YouTube — it's a general-purpose downloader.
3. Channel Analytics & YouTube Data API
Skills for querying channel stats, managing playlists, and working with the YouTube Data API v3.
yutu suite (zero installs): A single developer published 20+ atomic YouTube Data API v3 skills covering individual resource types: youtube-channel, youtube-video, youtube-caption, youtube-comment, youtube-comment-thread, youtube-playlist-yutu, youtube-playlist-item, youtube-playlist-image, youtube-subscription, youtube-member, youtube-memberships-level, youtube-super-chat-event, youtube-channel-banner, youtube-channel-section, youtube-search-yutu, youtube-watermark, youtube-video-abuse-report-reason, youtube-i18n-region, youtube-i18n-language, youtube-activity. All zero installs. These are comprehensive API wrappers but nobody is using them — the all-in-one alternatives win by convenience.
4. Content Creation & Publishing
For YouTube creators building or automating their content workflow.
5. Content Repurposing Pipeline (YouTube → Other Formats)
Skills that take a YouTube video and transform it into blog posts, articles, podcasts, or other content.
6. Multi-Platform Publishing (includes YouTube)
These skills handle multiple platforms but have meaningful YouTube support.
upload-post (19 installs) and postiz (18 installs) are the second and third most-installed YouTube-related skills on the platform — showing that multi-platform publishing tools are in high demand.
How to Choose
| I need to... | Recommended skill |
|---|---|
| Get a YouTube video transcript | youtube-transcript |
| Summarize a long YouTube video | youtube-watcher or youtube-summarizer |
| Download a YouTube video or audio | yt-dlp-downloader-skill or yt-dlp |
| Transcribe without Google API quota | youtube-transcript-yt-dlp or youtube-whisper |
| Use the full YouTube Data API | youtube-api-skill or yt-api-cli |
| Search YouTube and analyze channels | youtube-search or youtube-analytics |
| Repurpose a video into a blog post | yt-to-blog |
| Post to YouTube + other platforms | upload-post or postiz |
| Generate a full YouTube video with AI | youtube-factory |
| Create thumbnails | youtube-thumbnail-generation |
| Control YouTube Music | youtube-music |
Observations
Transcript extraction is massively over-built. There are 70+ skills whose primary function is getting text out of a YouTube video. The top 3 alone (youtube-transcript, youtube-watcher, youtube-summarizer) have 253 combined installs. Everything below rank 10 has single-digit installs and no meaningful differentiation. This is the most crowded subcategory on all of ClawHub.
68% of YouTube skills have zero installs. 125 out of 184. Many are clones with tweaked prompts or different API backends. If you're evaluating a zero-install YouTube skill, read the summary carefully — most offer nothing that the top 5 don't already cover.
yt-dlp skills punch above their weight. yt-dlp-downloader-skill (35 installs) is the third most-installed YouTube skill, right behind the transcript tools. Downloading is a genuinely underserved workflow relative to the number of skills dedicated to it.
Publishing pipelines are gaining traction. upload-post (19 installs) and postiz (18 installs) are among the top 10 most-installed YouTube skills despite being multi-platform tools. Creator workflows that end in "post to YouTube" are clearly in demand.
The yutu atomic API suite went nowhere. 20 granular API wrapper skills, all zero installs. The lesson: users want high-level intent-based tools, not raw API wrappers per endpoint.
Data source: ClawHub platform install and download stats as of March 18, 2026. Browse more skills at clawhub-skills.com.