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How to get YouTube transcripts into your AI agent
Your agent cannot watch a video, but it can read one. Here is how to give it YouTube transcripts, video lists and channel data on one prepaid key.
Why transcripts
Most of what is said on YouTube never makes it into text your agent can search. A transcript turns a video into something it can summarize, quote and compare, and video and channel lists let it find the right videos first.
With apifare
YouTube tools for transcripts, videos and channels are on the key: see the YouTube API guide for the tools most used. Each tool's page shows how it is priced, and the listed number is what your balance is debited.
How to set it up
- Get a key at /start and connect your agent with its setup guide.
- Ask.
Get the transcript of this YouTube video: <url>, orFind recent YouTube videos about <topic> and list their titles and channels.
Keep it within budget
Every call is debited from one prepaid balance with a hard stop at zero, under per-agent caps and a kill switch checked before each call. Failed provider calls are refunded. For more video and forum research, see the social listening use case.
Give this to your agent
set up https://apifare.com/SKILL.md — and it takes it from there: key, config, first call. $5 of calls free.
No agent open right now? Two manual steps: ① get a key (email in, key out) · ② give it to your agent — one config line, every client has a setup guide.
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