YouTube

YouTube Data API allows searching videos, retrieving video details, channel information, playlists, and comments.

Required Environment

Name	Type	Description
`YOUTUBE_API_KEY`	secret	API key from Google Cloud Console

Configuration

vm0.yaml

version: "1.0"

agents:
  my-agent:
    framework: claude-code
    skills:
      - https://github.com/vm0-ai/vm0-skills/tree/main/youtube

Run

Store your secret on the platform (recommended, one-time setup):

vm0 secret set YOUTUBE_API_KEY your-youtube-api-key

Then run your agent - secret is automatically loaded:

vm0 run my-agent "search YouTube videos"

For CI/CD or temporary overrides, pass secrets at runtime: --secrets YOUTUBE_API_KEY=value. See Environment Variables for details.

Example Instructions

AGENTS.md

# YouTube Search Agent

You search and analyze YouTube videos.

## Workflow

1. Search videos by keyword
2. Get video details
3. Extract statistics
4. Return formatted results

## Data Available

- Title, description, views, likes

AGENTS.md

# Channel Analyzer Agent

You analyze YouTube channels.

## Workflow

1. Get channel information
2. List channel videos
3. Analyze engagement
4. Generate report

## Metrics

- Subscribers, video count, views

Required Environment

Configuration

Run

Example Instructions

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