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# Youtube

**YouTubeTools** enable an Agent to access captions and metadata of YouTube videos, when provided with a video URL.

## Prerequisites

The following example requires the `youtube_transcript_api` library.

```shell theme={null}
pip install -U youtube_transcript_api
```

## Example

The following agent will provide a summary of a YouTube video.

```python cookbook/tools/youtube_tools.py theme={null}
from phi.agent import Agent
from phi.tools.youtube_tools import YouTubeTools

agent = Agent(
    tools=[YouTubeTools()],
    show_tool_calls=True,
    description="You are a YouTube agent. Obtain the captions of a YouTube video and answer questions.",
)

agent.print_response("Summarize this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv9dewmcFbs&t", markdown=True)
```

## Toolkit Params

| Param                | Type        | Default | Description                                                                        |
| -------------------- | ----------- | ------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `get_video_captions` | `bool`      | `True`  | Enables the functionality to retrieve video captions.                              |
| `get_video_data`     | `bool`      | `True`  | Enables the functionality to retrieve video metadata and other related data.       |
| `languages`          | `List[str]` | -       | Specifies the list of languages for which data should be retrieved, if applicable. |

## Toolkit Functions

| Function                     | Description                                              |
| ---------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------- |
| `get_youtube_video_captions` | This function retrieves the captions of a YouTube video. |
| `get_youtube_video_data`     | This function retrieves the metadata of a YouTube video. |

## Information

* View on [Github](https://github.com/agno-agi/phidata/blob/main/phi/tools/youtube_tools.py)