YOUTUBE FOR OPENCLAW

Your AI Assistant Can Now
Watch YouTube

Summarize YouTube videos, track channels, get daily digests — one sentence to set up.

Install via command line instead

Serving 15M+ transcripts every month

SEE THE DIFFERENCE

Ask Your AI About a YouTube Video.
Watch It Apologize.

Without TranscriptAPI

Can you summarize the latest TED talk for me?

I'm sorry, I can't access YouTube videos or read their transcripts. I can only work with text you paste directly into our conversation.

Blocked. Every time.

With TranscriptAPI

Can you summarize the latest TED talk for me?

Pulling the latest from @TED now 🔍

Here's "A bold plan for sustainable energy" — uploaded 2 hours ago: • Renewable infrastructure needs 10x current investment by 2030 • Community solar programs show 3x adoption rates vs. utility-led • Key quote: "The economics already work — it's the political will that's missing" Want me to check the other channels too?

Works. Every time.

HOW IT WORKS

Set Up in One Sentence. Use It Forever.

Tell Your Assistant

Install the transcriptapi skill from clawhub and configure it

On it 👍

All set! Installed TranscriptAPI, created your account, and configured the API key. You've got 100 free credits to start 🦞

Ask About YouTube

What did @NASA post this week?

3 new videos this week: 1. "Europa Clipper: First Results" — 2 days ago 2. "ISS Crew Rotation 47" — 4 days ago 3. "Artemis III Update" — 6 days ago Want me to summarize any of them?

Get Your Answer

Yeah, the Europa one 👀

"Europa Clipper: First Results" • Ice shell thinner than expected (15–25km) • Subsurface ocean confirmed via magnetic field data • Next flyby scheduled for March 2026

Install it once. Never think about it again.

CAPABILITIES

What Your Assistant Can Do

Ask for it like you'd ask a friend. Your assistant figures out the rest.

Summarize Videos

1 credit

Summarize this TED talk and pull out the key quotes

"Do Schools Kill Creativity?" by Sir Ken Robinson: • Schools prioritize conformity over creativity • Children lose creative confidence as they age • "If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original" 💡

Search YouTube

1 credit

Find the best videos about quantum computing this year

Searching 🔍

Top 3 results: 1. "Quantum Computing in 10 Minutes" — 4.2M views 2. "Google's Willow Chip Explained" — 2.8M views 3. "Quantum vs Classical" — 1.5M views Want me to summarize any of these?

Track Channels

Free

What did @NASA and @TED post this week

@NASA — 3 new videos (latest: "Europa Clipper: First Results") @TED — 1 new video ("A bold plan for sustainable energy") Want transcripts for any of these? 📋

Daily Digest

varies

Every morning, summarize new videos from my fav channels 🙏

Love it 👍

I'll check @TED, @NASA, and @natgeo daily at 8am. Checking uploads is free — you only spend credits when there's something new to transcribe.

Research Topics

varies

Compare how the top 5 channels explain climate change

Analyzed 5 channels. Nat Geo focuses on visual evidence, Kurzgesagt on systemic solutions, TED on human stories… Full comparison ready — want me to save it? 📄

Process Courses

1 credit/page

Get study notes from this Stanford ML playlist pls 😭

That's 24 lectures, ~19 hours total 😅

Starting with Lecture 1: Introduction. I'll create structured notes with key concepts, formulas, and timestamps for each one. Ready when you are ✌️

FEATURED USE CASE

Wake Up to a YouTube Summary

Set it up once. Every morning, your assistant checks your favorite channels and sends you a digest.

Every morning at 8am, fetch the latest videos from these channels and give me a digest: - @TED - @natgeo - @NASA For each new video, summarize the main points in 2–3 bullets with the title and link.

Done 👍

I'll monitor those 3 channels daily at 8am. Checking for new uploads is free, so you only spend credits when there's something new to transcribe. Your channel list is saved — just tell me if you want to add or remove any 📋

☀️ Your Daily YouTube Digest — Feb 11, 2026 @TED (1 new video) "A bold plan for sustainable energy" • Renewable infrastructure needs 10x investment by 2030 • Community solar programs show 3x adoption vs utility-led • Key quote: "The economics already work" @NASA (2 new videos) "Europa Clipper: First Results" • Ice shell thinner than expected (15–25km) • Subsurface ocean confirmed via magnetic field data "ISS Crew Rotation 47" • New crew of 4 via SpaceX Dragon • 6-month mission focused on crystal growth experiments @natgeo — No new uploads in the last 48 hours.

Tell me more about the Europa one 👀

"Europa Clipper: First Results" by NASA (12 min) The spacecraft completed its closest flyby of Europa on Jan 28, 2026, passing just 25km above the surface. Key findings: • Ice shell is 15–25km thick — thinner than the 30–40km scientists predicted • Magnetic field readings confirm a liquid saltwater ocean beneath the ice • Plume activity detected near the south pole, similar to Enceladus • Next flyby scheduled for March 2026 with improved instruments Mission team called it "the most significant discovery about Europa since Galileo" 🔭

WHY NOT USE OTHER TOOLS?

Other Tools Break. We Don't.

When you Google "YouTube for AI", you'll find tools that look free. They're free because they break every other week.

	Other tools	TranscriptAPI
Reliability	YouTube blocks them randomly. Works today, breaks tomorrow.	Works every time. We handle YouTube's blocks for you.
Where it works	Only on your laptop. Breaks on cloud AI tools.	Works everywhere — your laptop, cloud VPS, CI pipelines, any environment.
What your AI sees	Thousands of lines of junk text. Your AI gets confused.	Clean, structured answers. Your AI stays focused.
Setup	Download files, open a terminal, type commands, pray.	One sentence. Your assistant handles the rest.
Speed	Slow and unpredictable	Instant results

Reliability

YouTube blocks them randomly. Works today, breaks tomorrow.

Works every time. We handle YouTube's blocks for you.

Where it works

Only on your laptop. Breaks on cloud AI tools.

Works everywhere — your laptop, cloud VPS, CI pipelines, any environment.

What your AI sees

Thousands of lines of junk text. Your AI gets confused.

Clean, structured answers. Your AI stays focused.

Setup

Download files, open a terminal, type commands, pray.

One sentence. Your assistant handles the rest.

Speed

Slow and unpredictable

Instant results

15M+

YouTube videos read every month

<1 sec

answers in under a second

500K+

questions answered daily

100

free credits when you sign up

We handle the YouTube headaches. You just ask questions.

PRICING

100 Free Credits to Start.
Pick a Plan When You're Ready.

No credit card needed. Checking for new uploads is always free.

Special Low Usage Plan

Experimental — may be removed in the future.

$10 /year

Less than a coffee a month.

1,000 credits per year
Everything included
Checking for new uploads is always free
Top-ups at $5 per 1,000 credits

Get Special Plan

Starter (Annual)

BEST VALUE

$54 /year

1,000 credits/month. Top-ups are 70% cheaper.

1,000 credits per month (12,000/year)
Everything included
Checking for new uploads is always free
Top-ups at $1.50 per 1,000 credits
70% cheaper top-ups vs OpenClaw Annual

Get Starter Annual

Read a video's transcript	1 credit
Search for videos	1 credit/page
Search within a channel	1 credit/page
Browse a channel's videos	1 credit/page
Browse a playlist	1 credit/page
Check for new uploads	Free
Look up a channel	Free

1 credit = 1 transcript, 1 search, or 1 channel browse.

Need more? Starter Annual top-ups are just $1.50/1,000 — less than a penny per use.

FAQ

Common Questions

TranscriptAPI is an add-on for OpenClaw that gives your AI assistant full YouTube access. It can summarize videos, search YouTube, track channels, browse playlists, and create daily digests — all by just talking to your assistant. It installs in seconds from ClawHub.

Just tell your OpenClaw assistant: "Please install transcriptapi skill from clawhub and configure it." It handles everything — account setup, API key, and configuration. No manual steps required. If you prefer, you can also run npx clawhub@latest install transcriptapi from the command line.

Yes — you get 100 free credits on signup with no credit card required. Checking for new uploads and looking up channels are permanently free. When you need more, the OpenClaw Annual plan is $10/year for 1,000 credits/month, or the Power Plan at $54/year with much cheaper top-ups.

Each credit gets you one action — reading a transcript, running a search, or browsing a channel. 100 credits covers roughly 100 video summaries, or a mix of searches and transcripts. Since checking for new uploads is free, you can monitor channels without spending credits, and only use them when you want full video details.

Most YouTube tools you'll find online break constantly because YouTube blocks them, only work on your laptop (not cloud AI tools), and dump walls of messy text that confuse your AI assistant. TranscriptAPI works every time, works everywhere, and gives your assistant clean answers it can actually use. We handle 15M+ requests every month.

Yes! TranscriptAPI also works with Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code, and more. This page focuses on the OpenClaw experience — see our main page for all the ways you can use it.

Your assistant will let you know you've run out of credits and suggest upgrading. You can get the OpenClaw Annual plan ($10/year) for 1,000 credits/month, or the Power Plan ($54/year) with top-ups at just $1.50 per 1,000 credits. You can also buy one-time top-ups at transcriptapi.com/billing.

If Your OpenClaw Assistant Can't Read YouTube,
It's Underpowered.

Free to start. You'll know in 30 seconds if it's for you.