Watch Video
When you want to extract content from a video, YouTube, Loom, Vimeo, Riverside, Zoom...
Install
npx skills add coreyhaines31/makerskills --skill watch-video -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- coreyhaines31/makerskills880
- Category
- AI and agents
- Updated
- 9d ago
- License
- MIT
- Context cost
- Mediumabout 3,000 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
When you want to extract content from a video, YouTube, Loom, Vimeo, Riverside, Zoom recording, local MP4, X/IG video, anything yt-dlp supports. Three depth modes user picks per invocation, transcript (just words, fast/free), visual (transcript + ffmpeg frame extraction + Claude vision pass on key moments), multimodal (Gemini native video ingestion if $GEMINI_API_KEY set, else dense Claude vision). Uses local Whisper for transcription (MLX-Whisper on Apple Silicon, faster-whisper elsewhere), falls back to platform-provided transcripts when available (Loom, Riverside, YouTube auto-subs). Saves to ~/Documents/videos/<source>-<slug>-<date>/ and optionally captures summary to second-brain raw/ as call-/meeting-/note-. Triggers on "/watch-video <url>," "watch this video," "transcribe this loom," "analyze this video," "summarize this recording," "key moments from this," "what happened in this video." For a post's text and engagement, use social-fetch.
/watch-video, Transcribe and analyze any video at the depth you choose
Replaces and broadens the prior youtube-transcript skill. YouTube is now one of many sources; depth is user-controlled.
Step 1, Parse input
Accept:
- YouTube: full URL,
youtu.be/<id>,youtube.com/shorts/<id>, raw 11-char ID - Loom:
loom.com/share/<id>orloom.com/embed/<id> - Vimeo:
vimeo.com/<id> - Riverside: download URL or local file
- Zoom: local
.mp4from a downloaded recording - X / IG / TikTok video: URL, defers to
social-fetchfor metadata, uses yt-dlp for the file - Local file: any path to an
.mp4/.mov/.webm/.mkv
Detect source from URL pattern or file extension. If ambiguous, ask.
Step 2, Parse depth mode
| Invocation | Mode | What you get |
|---|---|---|
/watch-video <url> | transcript (default) | Clean text, metadata, optional chapters |
/watch-video <url> transcript | transcript | Same as default |
/watch-video <url> visual | visual | Transcript + frames at intervals + Claude vision pass identifying key moments |
/watch-video <url> multimodal | multimodal | Native video to Gemini (if $GEMINI_API_KEY), else dense Claude vision frame-by-frame |
If the depth isn't specified and the video is >10 minutes, ask before defaulting (visual/multimodal cost real money on long videos).
Step 3, Pull metadata
For URL sources, use yt-dlp:
yt-dlp --print "%(title)s|%(uploader)s|%(duration_string)s|%(upload_date>%Y-%m-%d)s|%(description)s" \
--print "%(chapters)j" --skip-download "<url>"
Capture: title, uploader/channel, duration, upload date, description (first paragraph), chapters (JSON or null).
For local files, use ffprobe:
ffprobe -v error -show_entries format=duration -of default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 "<file>"
Step 4, Build workdir
~/Documents/videos/<source>-<slug>-<date>/
