Youtube - Agno

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.

pip install -U youtube_transcript_api

Example

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

cookbook/tools/youtube_tools.py

from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.tools.youtube import YouTubeTools

agent = Agent(
    tools=[YouTubeTools()],
    show_tool_calls=True,
    description="You are a YouTube agent. Obtain the captions of a YouTube video and answer questions.",
)

agent.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.

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.

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