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YouTube transcripts in CrewAI

Give a CrewAI agent three YouTube tools: read a video's transcript (optionally with [m:ss] timestamps), search YouTube, and list a channel's videos. Errors come back to the agent as text, so one bad video doesn't stop the crew.

Get your free credits Setup steps

Set it up

1
Install the tools
Into the same environment as crewai:
```
pip install crewai-getyoutubetranscript
```
2
Get an API key
Sign in at getyoutubetranscript.com and create a key on the developers page (100 free credits, no card). Keys start with sk_live_. Set it as an environment variable:
```
export GETYOUTUBETRANSCRIPT_API_KEY=sk_live_...
```

A video research crew

from crewai import Agent, Crew, Task
from crewai_getyoutubetranscript import GetYouTubeTranscriptTool, YouTubeSearchTool

researcher = Agent(
    role="Video researcher",
    goal="Find the best YouTube talks on a topic and summarize them with timestamps",
    backstory="You turn long videos into short, cited notes.",
    tools=[YouTubeSearchTool(), GetYouTubeTranscriptTool()],
)

task = Task(
    description="Find a talk about vector databases and summarize its key points with [m:ss] timestamps.",
    expected_output="A bullet list of key points, each with a timestamp.",
    agent=researcher,
)

print(Crew(agents=[researcher], tasks=[task]).kickoff())

What you can build

A competitor-monitoring crew that lists a channel's new videos and summarizes them.
Content repurposing: one agent reads the transcript, another drafts posts from it.
Use a tool directly: GetYouTubeTranscriptTool().run(video="https://youtu.be/...", timestamps=True).

Questions about CrewAI

Which tools are included?

GetYouTubeTranscriptTool, YouTubeSearchTool and YouTubeChannelVideosTool (by @handle, URL or channel ID, newest first).

What does it cost?

Each transcript, search or channel page uses one credit from your account, and failed requests are not charged. New accounts get 100 free credits, no card, and paid plans add more credits each month.