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YouTube Intelligence

Not a transcript extractor. A knowledge access layer.

The creators you trust have the answers you need. Finding them takes hours. Now it takes seconds.

The real problem

You have a specific decision to make.
A meeting tomorrow. A deal to close. A hire to evaluate. A pitch to prepare.

The best answer probably exists — somewhere in the 500 hours of content
from the creators you already follow and trust.

But YouTube has no memory. No search within a channel. No synthesis across videos.
So you watch what comes up, miss 90% of what was said, and decide on incomplete information.

The knowledge is there. The access isn't.

What this does

You  →  "What does YC say about raising your seed round without traction?"

AI   →  Based on 3 videos:

        1. "How to Get Your First Users" — Y Combinator (Mar 2023)
           → https://youtu.be/abc?t=312
           "Most founders wait until the product is perfect before talking
            to users. That's the wrong order. Launch ugly, learn fast..."

        2. "Fundraising Fundamentals" — YC (Jan 2022)
           → https://youtu.be/xyz?t=89
           "Investors fund lines, not dots. If you have no traction,
            your job is to give them a second dot as fast as possible..."

One question. Instant answer. Real quotes. Exact timestamps.

What makes this different

	YouTube scraper tools	YouTube Intelligence
Scope	Single video URL	Entire channel (1,000+ videos)
Search	None	Semantic — finds meaning, not keywords
Output	Raw transcript	Sourced answer with citations
Memory	None	Persistent — index once, query forever
Multi-channel	No	Yes — compare experts side by side
Your data	Cloud	100% local — stays on your machine
Cost	Variable	Free (only a free YouTube API key)

Use cases

Founders — Extract everything a creator says about fundraising, GTM, hiring
Sales reps — Mine 1,000 sales episodes for tactics on specific objections
Researchers — Synthesize what multiple experts say about the same topic
Executives — Stay on top of a creator's thinking without watching every video

Setup (5 minutes)

1. Clone & install

git clone https://github.com/trichanizar/youtube-intelligence
cd yt-intelligence
python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Add your YouTube API key

cp .env.example .env

Open .env and add your free YouTube Data API v3 key.
→ Get one at console.cloud.google.com (free, takes 2 min)
→ Full walkthrough: SETUP.md

3. Connect to Claude Desktop

Add this to your Claude Desktop config (~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "yt-intelligence": {
      "command": "/absolute/path/to/yt-intelligence/.venv/bin/python",
      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/yt-intelligence/mcp_server.py"]
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop. Done.

Usage

Open Claude Desktop and start talking:

"Index the channel @GuillaumeMoubeche-FR"
→ Claude indexes all 68 videos (takes ~5 min)

"What does he say about the first 10 customers?"
→ Claude searches across all videos and answers with sources

"Now also index @30MPC and compare their views on cold outreach"
→ Claude searches both channels and synthesizes

No code. No terminal. Just conversation.

CLI usage (optional)

# Index a channel
python index_channel.py @GuillaumeMoubeche-FR

# Index with topic filter (skips off-topic videos)
python index_channel.py @30MPC --filter "B2B sales, prospecting, objection handling"

# Query directly
python search.py "how to handle pricing objections"

How it works

YouTube Channel
    ↓  YouTube Data API (free)
List of videos
    ↓  youtube-transcript-api (free)
Transcripts with timestamps
    ↓  Chunking + local embeddings (sentence-transformers, free)
Vector database (ChromaDB, local)
    ↓  Semantic search + cross-encoder reranking
Relevant excerpts
    ↓  Claude synthesizes
Sourced answer with timestamps

Everything runs locally. No data leaves your machine.

Requirements

Python 3.10+
Claude Desktop (free or Pro)
YouTube Data API v3 key (free)

That's it.

Youtube-Intelligence

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