Today’s post is a handy Raycast script that can be used to run prompts on the content of the given YouTube video.
This can be achived by using Gemini’s URL Context, which allows simply passing the video URL into the full prompt.
#!/usr/bin/env -S uv run
#
# @raycast.schemaVersion 1
# @raycast.title Prompt Gemini on YouTube Video
# @raycast.mode fullOutput
# @raycast.argument1 { "type": "text", "placeholder": "Video ID" }
# @raycast.argument2 { "type": "text", "placeholder": "Prompt" }
#
# /// script
# dependencies = [
# "google-genai>=1.30.0",
# "python-dotenv",
# ]
# ///
import os
import sys
from dotenv import load_dotenv
from google import genai
from google.genai.types import GenerateContentConfig
load_dotenv()
def prompt_video(video_id: str, prompt: str, model_id: str = "gemini-2.5-flash"):
client = genai.Client()
response = client.models.generate_content(
model=model_id,
contents=f"Given the YouTube video {video_id}, {prompt}",
config=GenerateContentConfig(tools=[{"url_context": {}}])
)
for each in response.candidates[0].content.parts:
print(each.text)
if __name__ == "__main__":
video_id = sys.argv[1]
prompt = sys.argv[2]
prompt_video(video_id, prompt)
