Agent skill · writing content · mvanhorn
pp-youtube
A self-maintained competitor-monitoring machine for YouTube: the read surfaces that matter for market and competitor research plus a local databank of channel histories, snapshots, comments, and packaging assets - market data hours old, not weeks. Trigger phrases: `monitor my youtube competitors`, `which competitor videos are gaining views right now`, `find fresh breakout videos in a niche`, `youtube packaging and thumbnail analysis data`, `mine youtube comments for audience signal`, `new niche research workspace`, `switch youtube api key`, `backfill youtube channel history`, `get the transcript of this youtube video`, `use youtube`, `run youtube`.
Why this skill is useful
Adds specific commands for bulk searching YouTube, fetching transcripts, and generating embed snippets that are not commonly known.
What it needs
Requires youtube-pp-cli installed locally. About 11k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-06. 1,890 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
<!-- GENERATED FILE — DO NOT EDIT. This file is a verbatim mirror of library/media-and-entertainment/youtube/SKILL.md, regenerated post-merge by tools/generate-skills/. Hand-edits here are silently overwritten on the next regen. Edit the library/ source instead. See the repository agent guide, section "Generated artifacts: registry.json, cli-skills/". --> YouTube — Printing Press CLI Prerequisites: Install the CLI This skill drives the youtube-pp-cli binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first: 1. Install via the Printing Press installer. It defaults binaries to $HOME/.local/bin on macOS/Linux and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PrintingPress\bin on Windows: 2. Verify: youtube-pp-cli --version 3. Ensure the reported install directory is on $PATH for the agent/runtime that will invoke this skill. If the npx install fails (no Node, offline, etc.), fall back to a direct Go install (requires Go 1.26.6 or newer). This installs into $GOPATH/bin (default $HOME/go/bin), so add that directory to $PATH instead: If --version reports "command not found" after install, the runtime cannot see the binary directory on $PATH. Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds. The YouTube Data API v3 read surfaces that matter for market and competitor research with complete parameter wiring, feeding a local SQLite databank designed for competitor monitoring: watch your ~15 competitors, monitor refreshes them for ~20-40 quota units per run, and velocity, growth, breakouts, comments-mine, and packaging turn the accumulated snapshots into current market intelligence that lagging analytics platforms deliver one to two weeks late. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills mvanhorn/pp-youtube