Youtube

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 library.

1uv pip install -U youtube_transcript_api

Example

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

1from kern.agent import Agent
2from kern.tools.youtube import YouTubeTools
3
4agent = Agent(
5    tools=[YouTubeTools()],
6        description="You are a YouTube agent. Obtain the captions of a YouTube video and answer questions.",
7)
8
9agent.print_response("Summarize this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv9dewmcFbs&t", markdown=True)

Toolkit Params

Param	Type	Default	Description
`get_video_captions`	`bool`	`True`	Enables the functionality to retrieve video captions.
`get_video_data`	`bool`	`True`	Enables the functionality to retrieve video metadata and other related data.
`languages`	`List[str]`	-	Specifies the list of languages for which data should be retrieved, if applicable.
`enable_get_video_captions`	`bool`	`True`	Enable the get_video_captions functionality.
`enable_get_video_data`	`bool`	`True`	Enable the get_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_youtube_video_timestamps`	This function retrieves the timestamps of a YouTube video.

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