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youtube-transcript

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Get a YouTube transcript with optional timestamps.

video transcription

What it does

Extracts transcripts from YouTube videos.

When to use it

Use when the user requests a transcript, subtitles, or captions and provides a YouTube URL.

How to use it

Give it a YouTube URL or video ID; it saves the transcript to the requested file or a video-ID-named text file.

What you provide

  • a YouTube URL or video ID

Uses


Access · 1

This skill

YouTube captions

Read

Fetches captions from YouTube

What you need · 3

The transcript script requires Python 3.10 or later.

The documented invocation runs the transcript script with uv.

The script depends on youtube-transcript-api 1.0.0 or later.


About this skill

Visibility
Public
Repository
intellectronica/agent-skills
Created
Oct 8, 2026
Updated
Oct 8, 2026
Files
2