scout
AgriciDaniel/youtube-scout
ranks a topic's YouTube videos by views , which improves: spots the hooks that work
Details
- judge’s score
- 9/10
- place
- outside the packs
- publisher
- AgriciDaniel
- status
- new
- pinned commit
- 8edb2b6 on GitHub (new tab)
- skill’s last commit
- Sep 11, 2026
- repo stars
- 62
- main type
- Data
Judgement
Precise triggers and documented flags, quotas and exit codes, real pitfalls (429, cache, quotas). Score reduced: scout.py script not provided, internal annexes for the maintainer, and a command chain to secure.
reservations
- The scripts/scout.py script, which does all the work, is not provided: it is impossible to verify the code actually executed.
- The file OWT-Social-Ads.xlsx, cited for the layout, is not provided; the column layout therefore cannot be verified from here.
- The skill depends on yt-dlp, Whisper and openpyxl, which are optional or external, and whose versions are not stated.
- The SKILL.md is long (flag and column tables) and mixes implementation details with the usage instructions.
- Triggering
- 2/2
- Added value
- 2/2
- Precision
- 2/2
- Scope
- 2/2
- Quality
- 1/2
Alerts
5 alerts, by category
Execution
- high risk
The SKILL.md asks to run `set -a; . <keyfile>` on a key file named by the user: sourcing a file means executing its contents in the shell.
- high risk
Topic words are passed as-is as shell command arguments; without strict quoting, a topic containing special characters can inject commands.
Network
- high risk
The --download and --hooks modes download media and run yt-dlp on public URLs; downloading third-party videos should be watched.
Static scan
- info risk
allowed-tools frontmatter
Bash, Read
- info risk
bundled scripts, not run by the SKILL.md
install.sh, uninstall.sh
Original description
Scout a topic on YouTube. Searches YouTube Data API v3 for the most relevant videos, ranks them by views (or engagement, likes, recency, momentum, breakout), and writes a research workbook in the OWT-Social-Ads layout with Videos, Channels, and Summary sheets, plus optional Comments and Transcripts …
added on Oct 19, 2026 · license MIT