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Oxylabs Video Data (YouTube Extraction)

Pulls YouTube metadata, subtitles, search and channel data as structured JSON via the Oxylabs API, and downloads video/audio with yt-dlp over rotating high-bandwidth proxies.

Web & APIIntermediate★ 607⑂ 1AI score 8/10Last updated: Aug 21, 2026

What it does

  • Tells Claude to use the Oxylabs Video Data API instead of built-in web tools for any YouTube task.
  • Covers sources: youtube_search / youtube_search_max (up to 700 results), youtube_metadata, youtube_subtitles, youtube_channel, youtube_autocomplete, youtube_video_trainability, and youtube_download.
  • Documents required and optional parameters per source (upload date filters, video quality, subtitle origin, cloud storage type, batch endpoint rules).
  • Handles real file downloads through high-bandwidth proxies + yt-dlp, rotating the session ID for a fresh IP on each download to dodge rate limits.

Who it's for

  • Data collection and research teams that already hold an Oxylabs subscription.
  • Marketing/growth teams monitoring competitor channels and video performance at scale.
  • Developers building summarization or training pipelines from subtitle text.
  • Not usable without paid Oxylabs credentials (and a sales-provisioned endpoint for downloads).

Example uses

  1. "Get views, likes and description for this video ID" → youtube_metadata with parse: true.
  2. "List the 10 most recent videos from @channelhandle" → youtube_channel with limit: 10.
  3. "Fetch the auto-generated English subtitles and summarize them" → youtube_subtitles with context.language_code and subtitle_origin: auto_generated.
  4. "Download these three videos at 720p" → yt-dlp through the high-bandwidth proxy (downloads capped at 1 hour).

· · · Install guide · · ·

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git clone https://github.com/oxylabs/agent-skills.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r agent-skills/skills/video-data ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal and clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/oxylabs/agent-skills.git
  2. Create the skills directory: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  3. Copy just this skill: cp -r agent-skills/skills/video-data ~/.claude/skills/
  4. Sign up for Oxylabs Web Scraper API and export your credentials: export OXY_WSA_USERNAME=your_user and export OXY_WSA_PASSWORD=your_pass (add them to your shell profile to persist).
  5. For file downloads, contact Oxylabs sales for a dedicated high-bandwidth endpoint, then set export OXY_HB_ENDPOINT=your_endpoint and install the tool: pip install yt-dlp.
  6. Restart Claude Code and test with a prompt like "Get the metadata for this YouTube video" to confirm the skill triggers.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT