youtube-instant-article

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Check before installing. Some of what it can do is expected: a media skill usually calls an AI service over the internet.

By sundial-org/awesome-openclaw-skills (GitHub) · media · 674 stars · scanned at commit b80cde2

Transform YouTube videos into Telegraph Instant View articles with visual slides and timestamped summaries. Use this skill whenever a user shares a YouTube URL (youtube.com or youtu.be) and asks to summarize, explain, or process the video. This is the DEFAULT skill for all YouTube video requests - do NOT use the generic summarize tool for YouTube.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Downloads and installs other software

The author does not mention this.

Found in 7 places.

skills/youtube-instant-article/README.md, line 44brew install steipete/tap/summarize
skills/youtube-instant-article/README.md, line 47brew install jq
skills/youtube-instant-article/SKILL.md, line 105- `summarize` v0.10.0+ (`brew install steipete/tap/summarize`)

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skills/youtube-instant-article/SKILL.md, line 106- `jq` (`brew install jq`)
skills/youtube-instant-article/scripts/setup.sh, line 15command -v summarize &>/dev/null || missing+=("summarize (brew install steipete/tap/summarize)")
skills/youtube-instant-article/scripts/setup.sh, line 16command -v jq &>/dev/null || missing+=("jq (brew install jq)")
skills/youtube-instant-article/scripts/setup.sh, line 18command -v ffmpeg &>/dev/null || missing+=("ffmpeg (brew install ffmpeg)")

Changes files outside its own folder

The author does not mention this.

Found in 3 places.

skills/youtube-instant-article/README.md, line 66mkdir -p ~/.summarize
skills/youtube-instant-article/README.md, line 67echo '{"model": "openai/gpt-5.2"}' > ~/.summarize/config.json
skills/youtube-instant-article/scripts/setup.sh, line 62echo "Add this to your shell profile (~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc):"

Sends data to these websites: catbox.moe, api.telegra.ph

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README. Expected for a media skill.

Found in 4 places.

skills/youtube-instant-article/README.md, line 215curl -s "https://catbox.moe/user/api.php" \
skills/youtube-instant-article/scripts/generate.sh, line 72url=$(curl -s "https://catbox.moe/user/api.php" -F "reqtype=fileupload" -F "fileToUpload=@$slide" 2>/dev/null)
skills/youtube-instant-article/scripts/generate.sh, line 174RESPONSE=$(curl -s -X POST "https://api.telegra.ph/createPage" \

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skills/youtube-instant-article/scripts/setup.sh, line 44RESPONSE=$(curl -s "https://api.telegra.ph/createAccount" \

Reads your saved credentials, such as SSH keys or .env files

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README.

Found in 3 places.

skills/youtube-instant-article/SKILL.md, line 28source /Users/viticci/clawd/.env && {baseDir}/scripts/generate.sh "$ARGUMENTS"
skills/youtube-instant-article/instant-article.sh, line 6[[ -f "$SCRIPT_DIR/.env" ]] && source "$SCRIPT_DIR/.env"
skills/youtube-instant-article/instant-article.sh, line 7[[ -f "$HOME/clawd/.env" ]] && source "$HOME/clawd/.env"

Runs commands on your computer

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README.

Found in 1 place.

skills/youtube-instant-article/SKILL.md, line 28source /Users/viticci/clawd/.env && {baseDir}/scripts/generate.sh "$ARGUMENTS"

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Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'youtube-instant-article' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'youtube-instant-article' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named youtube-instant-article already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/sundial-org/awesome-openclaw-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'b80cde2ef85241dd4fd54a1b934f5e22835f78ba' -- 'skills/youtube-instant-article' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/youtube-instant-article' ~/.agents/skills/'youtube-instant-article' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'youtube-instant-article' ~/.claude/skills/'youtube-instant-article' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-08	`b80cde2`	59
2026-11-07	`b80cde2`	59