Claude Skills + YouTube

What is Claude Skills?

Anthropic's skill packaging format for Claude Code and the API. Drop a Scavio skill into your ~/.claude/skills directory for one-command web search across all sessions.

Searching YouTube with Claude Skills

This integration lets your Claude Skills agent search YouTube in real time via the Scavio API. The agent gets back structured JSON with video results, channel results, playlist results, transcripts — ready for reasoning and decision-making.

Setup

# Clone the Scavio Claude skill into ~/.claude/skills/scavio

Code Example

Here is a complete Claude Skills agent that searches YouTube using Scavio:

# Generic HTTP integration for Claude Skills
# Use your framework's HTTP request tool to call:
# POST https://api.scavio.dev/api/v1/youtube/search
# Header: x-api-key: your_scavio_api_key
# Body: {"query": "your search query"}

Full Working Example

A production-ready example with error handling:

# Generic HTTP integration for Claude Skills
# Use your framework's HTTP request tool to call:
# POST https://api.scavio.dev/api/v1/youtube/search
# Header: x-api-key: your_scavio_api_key
# Body: {"query": "your search query"}

Pricing

Scavio offers a free tier with 500 credits/month (1 credit per search). No credit card required. This is enough to build and test your Claude Skills integration. Paid plans start at $30/month for higher volumes.