youtube-api SKILL.md skillA
youtube-api from swyxio/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add swyxio/skills/youtube-api@v1.0Pins v1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- swyxio/skills
- Path
youtube-api/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v1.0, committed Mar 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 28, 2026
- Size
- 8,740 bytes
- Repository stars
- 194
- License
- MIT
Manage YouTube videos programmatically via the YouTube Data API v3 — upload video files, upload custom thumbnails, update video metadata (titles, descriptions, tags), and query video/channel info without touching YouTube Studio's browser UI. Use this skill whenever the user wants to: upload a local video file to YouTube; set, update, or change a YouTube video's thumbnail from a local image file; batch-set thumbnails across multiple videos; update video titles, descriptions, or tags…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# YouTube API Manage YouTube videos programmatically — uploads, thumbnails, metadata, and queries — via the YouTube Data API v3, completely bypassing the YouTube Studio browser UI. ## Why This Skill Exists YouTube Studio's browser UI is unreliable for bulk operations and awkward for automation. The file picker for thumbnails is flaky, editing metadata for multiple videos is tedious, and browser uploads can stall or reset. This skill wraps the YouTube Data API v3 with OAuth2 authentication and persistent token caching, so once set up, uploads and follow-up edits are fully scriptable — including across Cowork VM resets. ## Prerequisites ### Python Dependencies ```bash pip install google-api-python-client google-auth-oauthlib google-auth --break-system-packages ``` ### Google Cloud Project Setup (One-Time) If the user hasn't set up YouTube API credentials yet, walk them through this. It takes about 5 minutes: 1. **Create/select a Google Cloud Project** - Go to [console.cloud.google.com](https://console.cloud.google.com) - Create a new project or select an existing one 2. **Enable the YouTube Data API v3** - Navigate to APIs & Services → Library …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add swyxio/skills/youtube-api@sha256:38ab2f375241beb5The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_at47oue33vvevclo)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Mar 28, 2026.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.0 latest | 2026-03-28 | b9be39d | 8,740 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-03-28 | 6075918 | 8,202 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8740 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
swyxio/skills · 194 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_at47oue33vvevclo GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=swyxio/skills/youtube-api GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/38ab2f375241beb559272ab40b9e0f32535042600baba175b3f41f29156e7488
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