pi-youtube-transcript

A pi extension that fetches YouTube video transcripts via the youtube-transcript library.

Install

pi install npm:pi-youtube-transcript

Usage

The extension registers a youtube_transcript tool that pi agents can call automatically when you ask about a YouTube video's content.

Example prompt:

Use youtube_transcript to summarize https://youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Supported URL formats

• https://youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID
• https://youtu.be/VIDEO_ID
• https://youtube.com/shorts/VIDEO_ID
• https://www.youtube.com/live/VIDEO_ID
• Bare 11-character video IDs

Language

By default the tool returns the first available transcript. To request a specific language, the agent will pass a lang parameter (ISO language code like "en", "es", "fr").

License

MIT