Startup, product, and design takes from curated tech YouTube, with timestamped transcript passages.
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Get aggregate statistics for the entire BuildFeed corpus: total videos, channels, categories, topics, and views; the published-date range; and transcript/TLDR enrichment coverage. Use this for high-level "how much data / how fresh" questions rather than per-video detail.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
No parameters | |||
Get a bounded transcript window for one video. Prefer search_transcript_passages for discovery; use this tool to inspect surrounding context after selecting a video.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| videoId | Yes | ||
| maxChars | No | ||
| endSeconds | No | ||
| startSeconds | No |
Get full detail for a single BuildFeed video — description, channel info, stats, categories, topics, TLDR, and key takeaways (the raw transcript text itself is excluded). Accepts either an 11-character YouTube video ID or a BuildFeed article slug. Use this after search_videos/list_videos to drill into one specific result.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | Yes | YouTube video ID (11 chars, e.g. "dQw4w9WgXcQ") or a BuildFeed article slug. |
Get BuildFeed's weekly roundup content. Without a date, returns the index of available weekly roundups (most recent first) — useful for discovering which weeks exist. With a date (YYYY-MM-DD week key), returns that week's full roundup detail. Use this for "what happened this week" or historical week-by-week summary questions.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| date | No | ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD) identifying a specific week. Omit to list available weeks. | |
| limit | No | When listing weeks (no "date" given), max entries to return (default 20, hard cap 50). |
List all of BuildFeed's video categories (AI, VC, Startup, Product, Design, Tools) with the number of videos in each. Use this to understand the taxonomy before filtering search_videos/list_videos/list_channels by category.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
No parameters | |||
List YouTube channels tracked by BuildFeed, with per-channel video counts and categories, sorted by video count descending. Use this to discover which creators BuildFeed covers, optionally filtered to a category.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | No | Max channels to return (default 20, hard cap 50). | |
| category | No | Restrict to channels that have published in this category. |
List canonical topic clusters from the full BuildFeed archive, grouped into stable families such as AI & Models, Building, Product, Startups, and Industry. Returns video counts, aliases, content-type distribution, and audience labels.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| group | No | Optional exact topic family, e.g. "Building" or "Startups". | |
| limit | No | ||
| minVideos | No | Only return clusters with at least this many videos. |
List curated BuildFeed videos, optionally filtered by category and sorted by recency, views, likes, or quality score. Returns compact video records (title, channel, categories, view/like counts, quality score) without transcript or description text. Use this to browse recent/top videos; use search_videos instead when looking for a specific topic.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| sort | No | Sort order: recent (default), views, likes, or quality. | |
| limit | No | Max videos to return (default 20, hard cap 50). | |
| since | No | Only videos published on or after this ISO 8601 date. Searches the full archive; videos outside the rolling cache have qualityScore 0 and commentCount 0. | |
| category | No | Restrict to one category: AI, VC, Startup, Product, Design, or Tools. |
Search inside transcript passages, returning the most relevant timestamped excerpts across multiple videos. Use this for evidence, quotations, implementation details, or questions whose answer may not appear in a title or summary.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | No | ||
| query | Yes | ||
| topic | No | ||
| audience | No | ||
| category | No | ||
| contentType | No |
Full-text search over BuildFeed's curated AI/startup/VC YouTube video library. Scores videos by keyword match across title, topics, TLDR summary, channel name, and key takeaways, ranked by relevance (then recency). Use this when the user asks about a specific topic, person, product, or company and you need to find relevant videos with summaries — not when you just want to browse everything (use list_videos for that instead).
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | No | Max results to return (default 20, hard cap 50). | |
| query | Yes | Search keywords, e.g. "Claude agents", "seed fundraising", "Figma design systems". | |
| since | No | Only videos published on or after this ISO 8601 date (reads the archive index). | |
| category | No | Restrict results to one category: AI, VC, Startup, Product, Design, or Tools. |
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Transcripts of YouTube videos, playlists and channels in any language: text, SRT, VTT or JSON.
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Your YouTube library in Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor: transcripts, breakdowns, summaries, search.
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