youtube-transcript
Use when the user provides a YouTube URL and needs the spoken content (captions) as text for analysis, summarization, quoting, or search.
Skill by victorhg
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What this skill can do and what it asks for, from its SKILL.md. Checked Oct 25, 2026.
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Files it touches
~/.claude/skills/youtube-transcript
What's inside
- Skill name
youtube-transcript- Description
- Use when the user provides a YouTube URL and needs the spoken content (captions) as text for analysis, summarization, quoting, or search. Fetches the video title and full transcript as JSON.
- License
- MIT
- Instructions
- 39 lines in SKILL.md · view on GitHub
Before installing
- Ships executable scripts
Files (2)
- SKILL.md
- fetch_transcript.py
SKILL.md (first lines)
# YouTube Transcript
Fetches a YouTube video's title and full transcript by pulling captions via `yt-dlp`. Prefers manual English subtitles, falls back to auto-generated English.
> **Skill directory:** `SKILL_DIR` below refers to the directory containing this `SKILL.md`. When you read this file, note the path shown by the `read` tool and substitute it for `SKILL_DIR` in the command below.
## Requirements
- `yt-dlp` on PATH (`brew install yt-dlp`)
- Python 3
## Usage
```bash
python3 SKILL_DIR/fetch_transcript.py "<youtube_url>"
```
## Output
Prints a JSON object to stdout:
```json
{
"title": "Video title",
"transcript": "full transcript text as a single string"
}
```
Progress/info logs go to stderr. On failure (no English captions, network error, bad URL), the script exits non-zero with a message on stderr.
## Notes
- Only English captions are attempted (`en`, `en-US`, `en-GB`, then any `en*`). Manual captions are preferred over auto-generated.
- Transcript is plain text with timing/formatting stripped — not timestamped.
- For non-English videos or videos with captions disabled, the script will fail; consider a vision-based video extraction tool with a Gemini prompt as a fallback.
> Adapted from `amosblomqvist/pi-config` (MIT).From victorhg/pi-dev, MIT.
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Signals
- Stars
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- Forks
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- Open issues
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- Last commit (this folder)
- Aug 25, 2026 (2 months ago)
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Details
- License
- MIT
- Repository
- github.com/victorhg/pi-dev
- First seen
- Oct 24, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 24, 2026
- Source
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youtube-transcript skill. Agent Mart. https://agentmart.dev/skills/victorhg-youtube-transcript (last updated 2026-10-24)