Claude Video
Gibt Claude die Fähigkeit, jedes Video zu sehen: /watch lädt herunter, extrahiert Frames, transkribiert und übergibt alles an Claude.
Skills CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI and more). Or straight from the GitHub repo.
Health
This skill is actively maintained.
- Hygiene
- Present: readme, license, description. Missing: contributing guide.
- Maintenance
- Last commit 2 days ago. 420 commits in the past year. Last release 11 days ago.
- Responsiveness
- Closed 82% of 180 issues. 8 contributors active in the past year.
- Adoption
- 7.8k stars on GitHub.
Security check
- No outbound network calls
Heuristik: erwartete Aufrufe an Video-Plattformen und die Whisper-API; keine Hinweise auf Exfiltration an fremde Hosts.
- No obfuscated code
Heuristik: kein verschleierter Code (kein eval-auf-Dekodiertem, keine großen Base64-Blöcke) im geprüften Code.
- No hardcoded secrets
Heuristik: keine hartcodierten API-Keys, Tokens oder Zugangsdaten gefunden.
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About
Claude Video
Give Claude the ability to watch any video. /watch downloads a video, extracts frames, transcribes it, and hands everything to Claude.
Features
- Downloads from YouTube, TikTok, Vimeo, local files and 500+ sources via
yt-dlp - Scene-aware or keyframe-based frame extraction
- Free native caption extraction, with a Whisper API fallback
- Configurable detail modes (transcript, efficient, balanced, token-burner)
- Frame deduplication to keep token costs low
- Auto-fps calculation based on video duration
Installation
Install via the Claude Code marketplace, the Agent Skills CLI (npx skills add bradautomates/claude-video), by uploading to claude.ai, or manually via symlink.
Usage
/watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
Claude downloads the video, extracts frames and transcript, and can then answer questions about what happens on screen.