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youtube-transcript
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Fine to try.
By lifangda/claude-plugins (GitHub) · media · 43 stars · scanned at commit 76d90e8
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
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- cli-tool/skills-library/media-processing/youtube-transcript/SKILL.md, line 58
pip3 install yt-dlp - cli-tool/skills-library/media-processing/youtube-transcript/SKILL.md, line 70
yt-dlp --list-subs "YOUTUBE_URL" - cli-tool/skills-library/media-processing/youtube-transcript/SKILL.md, line 85
yt-dlp --write-sub --skip-download --output "OUTPUT_NAME" "YOUTUBE_URL" - cli-tool/skills-library/media-processing/youtube-transcript/SKILL.md, line 93
yt-dlp --write-auto-sub --skip-download --output "OUTPUT_NAME" "YOUTUBE_URL" - cli-tool/skills-library/media-processing/youtube-transcript/SKILL.md, line 106
yt-dlp --print "%(filesize,filesize_approx)s" -f "bestaudio" "YOUTUBE_URL" - cli-tool/skills-library/media-processing/youtube-transcript/SKILL.md, line 119
command -v whisper - cli-tool/skills-library/media-processing/youtube-transcript/SKILL.md, line 128
pip3 install openai-whisper - cli-tool/skills-library/media-processing/youtube-transcript/SKILL.md, line 134
yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 --output "audio_%(id)s.%(ext)s" "YOUTUBE_URL" - cli-tool/skills-library/media-processing/youtube-transcript/SKILL.md, line 141
whisper audio_VIDEO_ID.mp3 --model base --output_format vtt - cli-tool/skills-library/media-processing/youtube-transcript/SKILL.md, line 160
rm audio_VIDEO_ID.mp3 - cli-tool/skills-library/media-processing/youtube-transcript/SKILL.md, line 168
yt-dlp --print "%(title)s" "YOUTUBE_URL" - cli-tool/skills-library/media-processing/youtube-transcript/SKILL.md, line 183
python3 -c " - cli-tool/skills-library/media-processing/youtube-transcript/SKILL.md, line 202
VIDEO_TITLE=$(yt-dlp --print "%(title)s" "YOUTUBE_URL" | tr '/' '_' | tr ':' '-' | tr '?' '' | tr '"' '') - cli-tool/skills-library/media-processing/youtube-transcript/SKILL.md, line 244
VIDEO_URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
Downloads and installs other software
This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README.
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Install
Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.
if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'youtube-transcript' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'youtube-transcript' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named youtube-transcript already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/lifangda/claude-plugins' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '76d90e8304f792a3c98ddd4172ec7ec59b1e656f' -- 'cli-tool/skills-library/media-processing/youtube-transcript' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'cli-tool/skills-library/media-processing/youtube-transcript' ~/.agents/skills/'youtube-transcript' && rm -rf "$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-transcript' ~/.claude/skills/'youtube-transcript' (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 |
|---|
| 2026-11-07 | 76d90e8 | 87 |