youtube

74 / 100 · Review before installing

Check before installing. Some of what it can do is expected: a media skill usually calls an AI service over the internet.

By ariadoss/superskills (GitHub) · media · 12 stars · scanned at commit c7ec8d7

Download YouTube video transcripts when user provides a YouTube URL or asks to download/get/fetch a transcript from YouTube. Also use when user wants to transcribe or get captions/subtitles from a YouTube video.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Runs commands on your computer

The author does not mention this. It runs automatically when the plugin is installed.

Found in 21 places.

skills/youtube/SKILL.md, line 36which yt-dlp || command -v yt-dlp
skills/youtube/SKILL.md, line 45brew install yt-dlp
skills/youtube/SKILL.md, line 50sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y yt-dlp

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skills/youtube/SKILL.md, line 55pip3 install yt-dlp
skills/youtube/SKILL.md, line 67yt-dlp --list-subs "YOUTUBE_URL"
skills/youtube/SKILL.md, line 82yt-dlp --write-sub --skip-download --output "OUTPUT_NAME" "YOUTUBE_URL"
skills/youtube/SKILL.md, line 90yt-dlp --write-auto-sub --skip-download --output "OUTPUT_NAME" "YOUTUBE_URL"
skills/youtube/SKILL.md, line 103yt-dlp --print "%(filesize,filesize_approx)s" -f "bestaudio" "YOUTUBE_URL"
skills/youtube/SKILL.md, line 116command -v whisper
skills/youtube/SKILL.md, line 125pip3 install openai-whisper
skills/youtube/SKILL.md, line 131yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 --output "audio_%(id)s.%(ext)s" "YOUTUBE_URL"
skills/youtube/SKILL.md, line 138whisper audio_VIDEO_ID.mp3 --model base --output_format vtt
skills/youtube/SKILL.md, line 157rm audio_VIDEO_ID.mp3
skills/youtube/SKILL.md, line 165yt-dlp --print "%(title)s" "YOUTUBE_URL"
skills/youtube/SKILL.md, line 180python3 -c "
skills/youtube/SKILL.md, line 199VIDEO_TITLE=$(yt-dlp --print "%(title)s" "YOUTUBE_URL" | tr '/' '_' | tr ':' '-' | tr '?' '' | tr '"' '')
skills/youtube/SKILL.md, line 241VIDEO_URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
hooks/hooks.json, line 8"command": "\"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/qa-full-ledger-hook.sh\""
hooks/hooks.json, line 18"command": "\"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/qa-full-ledger-hook.sh\""
hooks/hooks.json, line 28"command": "\"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/handoff-trigger-hook.sh\""

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Downloads and installs other software

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README.

Found in 15 places.

skills/youtube/SKILL.md, line 45brew install yt-dlp
skills/youtube/SKILL.md, line 50sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y yt-dlp
skills/youtube/SKILL.md, line 55pip3 install yt-dlp

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skills/youtube/SKILL.md, line 57python3 -m pip install yt-dlp
skills/youtube/SKILL.md, line 119If not installed, ask user: "Whisper is not installed. Install it with `pip install openai-whisper` (requires ~1-3GB for models)? This is a one-time installatio
skills/youtube/SKILL.md, line 125pip3 install openai-whisper
skills/youtube/SKILL.md, line 253brew install yt-dlp
skills/youtube/SKILL.md, line 255sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y yt-dlp
skills/youtube/SKILL.md, line 257pip3 install yt-dlp
skills/youtube/SKILL.md, line 306pip3 install openai-whisper
skills/youtube/SKILL.md, line 395- Provide fallback: "Install manually with: `pip3 install openai-whisper`"
setup, line 248log " [install] bun via curl -fsSL $BUN_INSTALL_URL | bash (third-party installer)"
setup, line 249curl -fsSL "$BUN_INSTALL_URL" | bash >/dev/null 2>&1 || {
setup, line 251log " Install manually: curl -fsSL $BUN_INSTALL_URL | bash"
setup, line 284log " Install: brew install ffuf"

Connects to the internet

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README. Expected for a media skill.

Found in 3 places.

setup, line 248log " [install] bun via curl -fsSL $BUN_INSTALL_URL | bash (third-party installer)"
setup, line 249curl -fsSL "$BUN_INSTALL_URL" | bash >/dev/null 2>&1 || {
setup, line 251log " Install manually: curl -fsSL $BUN_INSTALL_URL | bash"

Changes files outside its own folder

The author does not mention this. It runs automatically when the plugin is installed.

Found in 2 places.

.codex-plugin/plugin.json, line 4"description": "Curated AI coding skills with a Google/Meta-quality workflow (TDD, DRY, SOLID). The Codex plugin install exposes the whole skills/ tree; pack se
.codex-plugin/plugin.json, line 24"longDescription": "Curated engineering skills with a Google/Meta-quality workflow: test-driven development, systematic debugging, code review and clean-code pa

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Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'youtube' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'youtube' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named youtube already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/ariadoss/superskills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'c7ec8d78e5dc37484c2cfe90ab04de163d97dd41' -- 'skills/youtube' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/youtube' ~/.agents/skills/'youtube' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'youtube' ~/.claude/skills/'youtube' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-08	`c7ec8d7`	74
2026-11-06	`c7ec8d7`	84