youtube-search-api-skill
youtube-search-api-skill is an agent skill published by browser-act, listed under deploy & operate. It lives in the browser-act/skills repository, which has 6,277 GitHub stars and is licensed under MIT; we last read it on 2026-09-16.
This skill extracts structured data from YouTube search results using the BrowserAct API. It requires no specific credentials.
Install
skills is a generic installer for any repository of Claude agent skills -- it reads browser-act/skills’s own structure rather than assuming one, the same way this page reads the skill’s own SKILL.md rather than assuming a format.
npx skills add browser-act/skills
Maintenance
This skill helps users automatically extract structured data from YouTube search results using the BrowserAct API. The Agent should proactively apply this skill when users express needs like searching for YouTube videos by keywords, finding the latest YouTube Shorts for a specific topic, gathering YouTube channel data for competitor analysis, monitoring trending YouTube playlists, extracting YouTube search results for market research, tracking view counts for specific YouTube keywords, compiling a list of YouTube videos on a subject, discovering new YouTube content creators in a niche, searching YouTube for tutorial videos automatically, and retrieving structured YouTube search data without opening video pages.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| youtube-search-api-skill (this page) | browser-act | This skill helps users automatically extract structured data from YouTube search results using the BrowserAct… | 6,277 | 2026-08-24 |
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| amazon-search-listing(same repository) | browser-act | Amazon search and category listing scraper: extract product listings from any Amazon search results page, key… | 6,277 | 2026-08-24 |
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Skills from the same repository first, then others for this job by repository stars. Figures are from each repository when we last read it.
Common questions about youtube-search-api-skill
- What does youtube-search-api-skill do?
- This skill extracts structured data from YouTube search results using the BrowserAct API. It requires no specific credentials.
- How do I install youtube-search-api-skill?
- Run npx skills add browser-act/skills. The skills installer reads the repository’s own structure, so it works for any repository of agent skills.
- Who publishes youtube-search-api-skill?
- browser-act.
- Is youtube-search-api-skill maintained, and what licence does it use?
- Its repository has 6,277 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is listed. Its last commit we recorded was on 2026-08-24. The repository declares the MIT licence.
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