Prerequisites Active Yoinkit subscription
API token from Settings → OpenClaw
Your First Request Let’s fetch the transcript of a YouTube video:
curl -X GET "https://yoinkit.ai/api/v1/openclaw/youtube/transcript?id=dQw4w9WgXcQ" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN"
Response { "success" : true , "data" : { "video_id" : "dQw4w9WgXcQ" , "title" : "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up" , "duration" : 213 , "transcript" : "We're no strangers to love \n You know the rules and so do I..." , "language" : "en" } }
Common Workflows Get Video Content + Transcript # First, get video metadata curl "https://yoinkit.ai/api/v1/openclaw/youtube/video?id=dQw4w9WgXcQ" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $YOINKIT_API_TOKEN " # Then, get the transcript curl "https://yoinkit.ai/api/v1/openclaw/youtube/transcript?id=dQw4w9WgXcQ" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $YOINKIT_API_TOKEN "
Search for Trending Content # What's trending on YouTube in tech? curl "https://yoinkit.ai/api/v1/openclaw/youtube/trending?category=tech" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $YOINKIT_API_TOKEN " # Search TikTok for specific topics curl "https://yoinkit.ai/api/v1/openclaw/tiktok/search?query=productivity%20tips" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $YOINKIT_API_TOKEN "
# Find content about "AI tools" across platforms for platform in youtube tiktok twitter ; do curl "https://yoinkit.ai/api/v1/openclaw/${ platform }/search?query=AI%20tools" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $YOINKIT_API_TOKEN " done
Using with OpenClaw Once you have the yoinkit skill installed:
# Configure your API token openclaw config set skills.yoinkit.env.YOINKIT_API_TOKEN "your-token" # Now your AI assistant can research for you
Then just ask your assistant:
“What’s trending on YouTube in the AI space today?”
“Pull the transcript from this TikTok video and summarize the key points”
“Find Reddit posts about home automation that I could turn into a YouTube video”
Next Steps
API Reference Explore all available endpoints
OpenClaw Setup Install and configure the yoinkit skill
