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YouTube is a video hosting and streaming platform: upload, transcode, deliver across a global CDN, advertise, and recommend.

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YouTube

COMPANYGoogle
REUSE RESEARCHPeerTube
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Product skillDownload YouTube skill ↓
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Company
Google (google)
Product type
media
Categories
media
Official site
https://www.youtube.com/ ↗
Catalog ID
youtube

At a glance

YouTube is a video hosting and streaming platform: upload, transcode, deliver across a global CDN, advertise, and recommend.

Catalog categories: media.

Catalogued capability areas: - Video hosting, transcoding and adaptive streaming - Channels, subscriptions, playlists, comments - Recommendations and search - Monetisation and advertising

This summary reflects the catalog record, not a complete product specification. Verify intended users, end-to-end workflows, supported platforms, edge cases, data handling, and constraints against cited sources. Treat capability labels as research leads until that verification is complete.

  • Video hosting, transcoding and adaptive streaming
  • Channels, subscriptions, playlists, comments
  • Recommendations and search
  • Monetisation and advertising

Open-source alternative

4 candidate projects in the landscape. A candidate may cover all, part, or none of what YouTube does — read the coverage and gaps below.

PeerTube

AGPL-3.0

Federated video hosting and streaming platform.

The real platform-level alternative.

Invidious

AGPL-3.0

Private alternative front end to YouTube.

Front end only; depends on YouTube.

Piped

AGPL-3.0

Alternative YouTube front end.

Front end only.

Coverage and gaps

Alternative coverage

Available. PeerTube is a fully open hosting platform; the gap is content and network effects rather than code.

The gap

The software is replaceable; the licensed content library and creator monetisation are not.

Build this product with your agent

This Markdown file is the coding-agent skill for YouTube. Give it to your agent in your project; it guides research, reuse decisions, implementation and verification.

Get the YouTube build skill

rae youtube --out ./youtube-agent

Generate the skill with the RAE CLI, or download the Markdown skill. The source skill is also available in the catalog.

  • agent-kit.mdDownloadable Markdown skill with product-specific instructions for your coding agent.available
  • skill.mdGenerated copy of the same product skill — rae youtube --out ./youtube-agent.in kit
  • mcp.jsonOptional MCP server config — rae youtube --out ./youtube-agent.in kit
  • Product workspaceOptional starting workspace for your agent — rae build product youtube --out ./youtube.
  1. ChoosePick the product you want to build.
  2. ReviewAsk your agent to check the product skill, evidence and alternatives.
  3. BuildGive the skill to your coding agent and build in your own project.
  4. VerifyRun the checks for your implementation and review the result.

Evidence

Sources

Provenance

Next step

Give the YouTube skill to your coding agent in your project. Ask it to evaluate PeerTube ↗ against your needs, reuse what fits, then follow the skill's build and verification instructions.

Give the product skill to your coding agent in the project where you want to build. Optional starter workspace: rae build product youtube --out ./youtube. CLI reference.

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