Transcriptapi
Transcripts API provides programmatic access to transcripts, enabling automated analysis and integration of speech data for various applications.
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Run in terminal (recommended)
claude mcp add transcriptapi npx -- -y @trustedskills/transcriptapi
Or manually add to ~/.claude/settings.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"transcriptapi": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@trustedskills/transcriptapi"
]
}
}
}Requires Claude Code (claude CLI). Run claude --version to verify your install.
About This Skill
What it does
This skill enables AI agents to retrieve and process transcripts from YouTube videos. It allows for direct access to video content text, facilitating analysis and summarization without manual downloading.
When to use it
- Extracting dialogue or narration from educational tutorials for study notes.
- Analyzing interview recordings to identify key themes or speaker sentiment.
- Converting long-form podcast episodes into searchable text documents.
- Generating summaries of technical talks for quick reference.
Key capabilities
- Fetches transcript data directly from YouTube video URLs.
- Provides raw text output suitable for further processing by the AI agent.
- Supports various video lengths and formats available on the platform.
Example prompts
- "Summarize the main points of this [YouTube URL] about machine learning."
- "Extract all questions asked in this interview transcript from [YouTube URL]."
- "Translate the dialogue from this [YouTube URL] into Spanish."
Tips & gotchas
Ensure the target YouTube video has an available auto-generated or uploaded transcript; videos without captions may return empty results. Verify that the specific video URL is accessible and not restricted by privacy settings before requesting extraction.
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