Video Transcript Downloader
Downloads accurate transcripts from YouTube videos, saving time and effort for analysis or repurposing.
Install on your platform
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Run in terminal (recommended)
claude mcp add video-transcript-downloader npx -- -y @trustedskills/video-transcript-downloader
Or manually add to ~/.claude/settings.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"video-transcript-downloader": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@trustedskills/video-transcript-downloader"
]
}
}
}Requires Claude Code (claude CLI). Run claude --version to verify your install.
About This Skill
What it does
This skill downloads transcripts from YouTube videos. It can retrieve the automatically generated captions or, if available, manually created subtitles. The downloaded transcript is returned as a plain text file.
When to use it
- You need to analyze the content of a video but prefer reading a transcript for easier processing.
- You want to create summaries or notes from video lectures without watching the entire recording.
- You're building an application that requires textual data extracted from YouTube videos.
- You are researching a topic and need to quickly extract key information from multiple YouTube videos.
Key capabilities
- Downloads transcripts from YouTube videos.
- Supports automatically generated captions.
- Retrieves manually created subtitles if available.
- Returns transcript as plain text.
Example prompts
- "Get the transcript for this YouTube video: [YouTube Video URL]"
- "Download the subtitle file for [YouTube Video URL]."
- "Can you give me a text version of the video at [YouTube Video URL]?"
Tips & gotchas
- The quality of automatically generated captions can vary significantly. Manually created subtitles are generally more accurate.
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