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youtube-video-api-skill

This skill helps users automatically extract channel-level and video detail data from a specific YouTube channel via BrowserAct API. Agent should proactively apply this skill when users express needs like extracting channel video data, getting latest or popular videos from a YouTube channel, tracking competitor channel content, extracting video metrics such as views likes comments, retrieving subscriber count and channel info, monitoring posting cadence of a YouTube channel, gathering video data for content strategy analysis, getting earliest videos of a YouTube creator, analyzing engagement signals across a full channel, and downloading structured YouTube video details without manual scraping.

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# YouTube Video API Skill

## 📖 Introduction
This skill provides users with a one-stop YouTube video data extraction service using BrowserAct's YouTube Video API template. It can directly extract structured channel-level data plus video detail data from a specific YouTube channel through a single API request. Just input the YouTube channel URL and video type (Latest, Popular, or Earliest), and you can get clean, ready-to-use video metrics.

## ✨ Features
1. **No hallucinations, ensuring stable and accurate data extraction**: Pre-set workflows avoid generative AI hallucinations.
2. **No CAPTCHA issues**: No need to handle reCAPTCHA or other verification challenges.
3. **No IP access restrictions and geo-blocking**: No need to deal with regional IP restrictions.
4. **More agile execution speed**: Compared to pure AI-driven browser automation solutions, task execution is faster.
5. **Extremely high cost-effectiveness**: Significantly reduces data acquisition costs compared to AI solutions that consume a large number of Tokens.

## 🔑 API Key Guidance Flow
Before running, you must check the `BROWSERACT_API_KEY` environment variable. If it is not set, do not take any other actions first. You should request and wait for the user to provide it collaboratively.