Youtube - Agno

YouTubeTools enable an Agent to access captions and metadata of YouTube videos, when provided with a video URL.

Prerequisites

The following example requires the youtube_transcript_api and openai libraries.

uv pip install -U youtube_transcript_api openai

Example

The following agent will provide a summary of a YouTube video.

cookbook/91_tools/youtube_tools.py

from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.tools.youtube import YouTubeTools

agent = Agent(
    tools=[YouTubeTools()],
    description="You are a YouTube agent. Obtain the captions of a YouTube video and answer questions.",
)

agent.print_response("Summarize this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv9dewmcFbs&t", markdown=True)

Toolkit Params

Param	Type	Default	Description
`languages`	`Optional[List[str]]`	`None`	Specifies the list of languages for which data should be retrieved, if applicable.
`proxies`	`Optional[Dict[str, Any]]`	`None`	Proxies to use for the transcript API requests.
`timeout`	`int`	`30`	Timeout for HTTP requests, in seconds.
`enable_get_video_captions`	`bool`	`True`	Enable the get_youtube_video_captions functionality.
`enable_get_video_data`	`bool`	`True`	Enable the get_youtube_video_data functionality.
`enable_get_video_timestamps`	`bool`	`True`	Enable the get_video_timestamps functionality.
`all`	`bool`	`False`	Enable all functionality.

Toolkit Functions

Function	Description
`get_youtube_video_captions`	This function retrieves the captions of a YouTube video.
`get_youtube_video_data`	This function retrieves the metadata of a YouTube video.
`get_video_timestamps`	This function retrieves the timestamps of a YouTube video.

Developer Resources

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