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Youtube Transcript

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badlogic·vlatest·video-media·MIT

This skill extracts transcripts from YouTube videos, providing searchable text and boosting accessibility for viewers.

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Showing Claude Code. One command installs this skill into any of the agents below.

  1. 1

    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add badlogic/pi-skills --skill youtube-transcript -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

What we know about this skill

Publisher

badlogic

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Install target

Live repository

Not pinned. Installing fetches whatever the repository holds at the time you run the command.

No human has reviewed this code. The checks below are a static scan of the files at one commit — nobody has run this skill or judged whether it works. A skill runs with whatever access you give your agent, so read the source before you install it.

Automated safety checks

scanned

This skill failed 1 of 6 checks. A failure is not proof of bad intent; it means something in the code needs a human to look at it before you run it.

  • No undeclared network calls: failed

    Contacts 1 host that is neither well-known infrastructure nor declared in the skill's frontmatter: www.youtube.com.

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

    Hosts contacted

    www.youtube.comundeclared

    What it found

    • youtube-transcript/transcript.js:10contacts www.youtube.com
      console.error('Example: transcript.js https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBw7gsDPAYQ');

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

    No encoded or obfuscated payloads.

    No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.

  • No credential access: passed

    Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.

    Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.

  • No pipe-to-shell installers: passed

    No pipe-to-shell or download-and-run installers.

    No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.

  • Pinned to a commit: passed

    Scanned badlogic/pi-skills at 90bb51cae3.

    The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.

Commit
90bb51cae3
Manifest
youtube-transcript/SKILL.md
Scanned
3 files, 90 lines
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About this skill

What it does

This skill extracts transcripts from YouTube videos. It allows you to access and utilize the spoken content of a video, enabling tasks like summarization, translation, or analysis that would otherwise be difficult. The skill directly retrieves text from YouTube videos based on provided URLs.

When to use it

  • Summarize a long lecture series without watching all the videos.
  • Translate a foreign language tutorial into your native language.
  • Extract key information from an interview for research purposes.
  • Generate captions or subtitles for accessibility.

Key capabilities

  • Retrieves transcripts from YouTube video URLs.
  • Provides text-based content of the spoken word in videos.

Example prompts

  • "Get the transcript from this YouTube video: [YouTube Video URL]"
  • "Summarize the key points discussed in this video: [YouTube Video URL]"
  • "Translate the transcript of this video into Spanish: [YouTube Video URL]"

Tips & gotchas

  • The accuracy of the transcript depends on the quality of the YouTube video's automatic captions.