✨ Features

• 🔍 Smart Fetching — Get latest AI-related videos from subscribed channels
• 📝 Transcript Extraction — Auto-download video subtitles (including auto-generated)
• 📊 Report Generation — Generate structured Markdown reports
• 🖼️ Thumbnail Download — Auto-save video thumbnails

🚀 Quick Start

Installation

Option 1: Install via Claude Code Plugin (Recommended)

# Add marketplace
claude plugin marketplace add https://github.com/yizhiyanhua-ai/youtube-ai-digest

# Install plugin
claude plugin install youtube-ai-digest@youtube-ai-digest

Option 2: Manual Clone

# Clone to Claude Code skills directory
git clone https://github.com/yizhiyanhua-ai/youtube-ai-digest.git \
  ~/.claude/skills/youtube-ai-digest

Install Dependencies

pip install yt-dlp

Configure Channels

Edit data/channels.json to add your subscribed YouTube channels:

{
  "channels": [
    {"name": "Two Minute Papers", "id": "UCbfYPyITQ-7l4upoX8nvctg"},
    {"name": "AI Explained", "id": "UCNJ1Ymd5yFuUPtn21xtRbbw"},
    {"name": "Yannic Kilcher", "id": "UCZHmQk67mN31gbHey6BVyNw"}
  ]
}

💡 How to find Channel ID? Open a YouTube channel page, the URL format is youtube.com/channel/{CHANNEL_ID}

Usage

Chat with Claude Code directly:

User: What are the latest AI videos?
User: Summarize the first video
User: Create a report with the key takeaways

📖 Manual Usage

# 1. Fetch videos from the past 7 days
python scripts/fetch_videos.py --days 7 --keyword AI

# 2. Get transcript for a specific video
python scripts/get_transcript.py --video-id dQw4w9WgXcQ

# 3. Generate Markdown report
python scripts/generate_report.py --video-id dQw4w9WgXcQ --summary "Your summary here"

📁 Directory Structure

youtube-ai-digest/
├── .claude-plugin/
│   └── marketplace.json  # Plugin marketplace config
├── SKILL.md              # Claude Code skill definition
├── README.md             # Documentation (Chinese)
├── README.en.md          # Documentation (English)
├── scripts/
│   ├── fetch_videos.py   # Fetch channel video list
│   ├── get_transcript.py # Download video transcripts
│   └── generate_report.py# Generate Markdown reports
└── data/
    ├── channels.json     # Subscribed channels config
    ├── videos.json       # Video list cache (auto-generated)
    └── output/           # Report output directory (auto-generated)

📋 Output Example

# Understanding GPT-4's Reasoning

![Thumbnail](thumbnail.webp)

## Video Info
- Channel: AI Explained
- Published: 2024-01-15
- Duration: 12:34
- Link: https://youtube.com/watch?v=...

## Summary
This video provides an in-depth analysis of GPT-4's reasoning capabilities...

## Transcript
[00:00] Welcome back to AI Explained...
[01:30] Today we're going to discuss...

🔧 Requirements

🤝 Contributing

Issues and Pull Requests are welcome!

📄 License

MIT License