Claude video tool uses Gemini 2.5 Flash key, yt-dlp, and ffmpeg to watch videos

EXM7777 · x · 2026-07-26

A Claude video-watching hack routes prompts through a Gemini 2.5 Flash API key and uses yt-dlp plus ffmpeg to ingest YouTube, Loom, TikTok, and local files.

The tool, bradautomates/claude-video, first grabs free captions to avoid cost, then extracts scene-aware frames for tasks like competitor launch analysis, screen-recording debugging, fast talk summaries with timestamps, and stripping hype from product videos.

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