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name: youtube description: Fetch video metadata from YouTube URLs using yt-dlp. Use when the user provides a YouTube URL or asks to get details from a YouTube video.

YouTube Video Context

Fetch video information from YouTube using yt-dlp.

Instructions

When the user provides a YouTube URL (youtube.com or youtu.be), use yt-dlp to fetch video metadata:

Copy# Get full JSON metadata
yt-dlp --skip-download --dump-json "VIDEO_URL"

This returns JSON with:

• title - Video title
• description - Full description (often contains recipes, timestamps, links)
• channel - Channel name (useful for source attribution)
• upload_date - Publication date

Quick commands

Copy# Get just the description
yt-dlp --skip-download --print description "VIDEO_URL"

# Get title and description
yt-dlp --skip-download --print "%(title)s" --print description "VIDEO_URL"

Examples

User: "Create a recipe from https://youtube.com/watch?v=xyz"

1. Fetch the video metadata with yt-dlp
2. Extract the recipe from the description
3. Use the channel name for attribution