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youtube-automation-agent: Automate YouTube

Name: youtube-automation-agent: Automate YouTube
Author: darkzOGx

Ideal for founders needing automated video creation and publishing.

beginner⏱ 30 minutes💵 Free + LLM API costs

1,692 stars416 forksJavaScriptGuide quality 8/10Updated 7/16/2026100% free · open source

What it is

Use the YouTube automation agent to automate tasks on your YouTube channel, such as creating and publishing videos 24/7.

Real use case example

"A founder with a growing YouTube channel can use this skill to automate video publishing, setting it to post a video every hour with a customized title, description, and tags. Every morning, they simply upload a new video to their desktop, and this skill takes care of publishing it automatically. The founder can track their results and adjust their strategy as needed."

Best insideGemini Code AssistClaude DesktopCursorCodex CLI

When to use it

•You need to consistently publish high-quality YouTube videos without manual intervention
•Your startup relies on YouTube as a primary marketing channel and needs automated content creation
•You want to optimize your YouTube video titles, descriptions, and tags for better discoverability without manual effort

Ready-to-paste prompt

Edit the `config.json` file to include a prompt like `{"title": "My Automated Video", "description": "This is a test video", "tags": ["automation", "youtube"]}` to create a new video with the specified title, description, and tags

Heads up: Make sure you have a Gemini API or OpenAI account and have replaced the placeholder API keys in the `config.json` file with your actual API credentials to avoid authentication errors

Saves to your device

Use with Claude

New

Skip the builder — one click puts this in Claude, Cursor, Antigravity and more.

🛠️ Technical setup

Expect 20–40 minutes in a terminal — or let your AI agent drive it.

Try it instantly — no install

Claude Code

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/youtube-automation-agent && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/youtube-automation-agent/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/youtube-automation-agent/SKILL.md

Open in another AI app

Opens the app with this repo with the prompt ready to go — no copy-paste needed.

Connect the whole catalog (MCP)

claude mcp add --transport http workflowstacks https://workflowstacks.com/api/mcp

Adds a WorkflowStacks connector to Claude Code: search and load any skill here by chatting.

How youtube-automation-agent: Automate YouTube works

Codeflow

Free to inspect

Youtube-automation-agent: Automate YouTube is a large JavaScript project (~27k lines across 42 code files). It is a full software project: use it through its install path rather than reading it end to end. Last commit this month, MIT license, has a test suite.

Size

Large codebase

~27k lines · 42 code files · ~4 h to skim

Setup

Developer setup

A real software project. Use it via its install path; don't expect to read it all.

Runs on

Node.js

Needs API keys (.env)

JavaScript 91%CSS 6%HTML 3%

Where to start reading

1
README.md
Start here — what it does and how to install it
2
index.js
Where the program starts running
3
package.json
Dependencies and the commands it exposes
4
.env.example
The API keys and settings you must provide
5
agents/analytics-optimization-agent.js
Inside agents/ — an example of what the AI is told to do

What's in each folder

agents/Prompts, skills & agent definitions7 files

docs/Documentation2 files

examples/Examples you can copy1 files

utils/Helper scripts23 files

reports/Folder5 files

dashboard/Folder4 files

config/Configuration1 files

database/Folder1 files

READMEHas testsDocumentedCI checksExamples includedMIT licenseUpdated this month

Use with Claude

New

Skip the builder — one click puts this in Claude, Cursor, Antigravity and more.

🛠️ Technical setup

Expect 20–40 minutes in a terminal — or let your AI agent drive it.

Try it instantly — no install

Claude Code

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/youtube-automation-agent && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/youtube-automation-agent/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/youtube-automation-agent/SKILL.md

Open in another AI app

Opens the app with this repo with the prompt ready to go — no copy-paste needed.

Connect the whole catalog (MCP)

claude mcp add --transport http workflowstacks https://workflowstacks.com/api/mcp

Adds a WorkflowStacks connector to Claude Code: search and load any skill here by chatting.

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Details

Creator

darkzOGx

Language

JavaScript