youtube-catchup

To generate YouTube video summaries, the skill fetches new uploads via yt-dlp, extracts transcripts, and spawns summarization agents to produce structured bullet-point notes saved directly to an Obsidian vault path.

Transcript-based summarization works by fetching video lists for prioritized channels, filtering new items, retrieving transcripts via yt-dlp, and producing structured notes while comparing against existing files to avoid duplicates.

Yes, you can backfill older YouTube content and avoid duplicate notes. The skill compares newly fetched video items against existing notes in your vault state to ensure no redundant summaries are generated.

Yes, YouTube video summarization integrates with Obsidian vaults by writing generated notes to a specified path. Notes are organized under a defined folder structure by channel and video title.

Yes, you need yt-dlp to fetch YouTube transcripts and video data. The skill relies on it to retrieve video lists and extract the transcript text required for generating notes.

The best way to catch up on YouTube subscriptions without watching every video is automating channel monitoring to fetch new uploads, extract transcripts, and generate concise summaries saved as notes.