Youtube Transcript
This skill extracts transcripts from YouTube videos, providing searchable text and boosting accessibility for viewers.
Install on your platform
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Run in terminal (recommended)
claude mcp add badlogic-youtube-transcript npx -- -y @trustedskills/badlogic-youtube-transcript
Or manually add to ~/.claude/settings.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"badlogic-youtube-transcript": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@trustedskills/badlogic-youtube-transcript"
]
}
}
}Requires Claude Code (claude CLI). Run claude --version to verify your install.
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.
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