yt-transcript

name	yt-transcript
description	Fetch transcripts from YouTube videos. Use when user asks to get, download, extract, or retrieve YouTube video transcripts, captions, or subtitles. Also activates for video content analysis, summarizing YouTube videos, or processing video content.
allowed-tools	["Read","Write","Bash"]

YouTube Transcript Skill

Fetch transcripts from YouTube videos for analysis, summarization, or content processing.

When This Skill Activates

This skill automatically activates when:

• User asks to get, download, or extract YouTube transcripts
• User wants to summarize or analyze YouTube video content
• User mentions video captions or subtitles
• User needs to process YouTube video text content

Quick Start

Prerequisites

The skill requires youtube-transcript-api to be installed:

pip install youtube-transcript-api

Or with uv:

uv pip install youtube-transcript-api

Basic Usage

Fetch a single transcript (outputs to stdout):

python ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/yt-transcript/scripts/get_transcript.py "https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ"

Save to file:

python ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/yt-transcript/scripts/get_transcript.py "https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ" --output transcript.txt