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Video Transcript Downloader

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steipete·vlatest·video-media·MIT

Downloads accurate transcripts from YouTube videos, saving time and effort for analysis or repurposing.

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Install on your platform

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 steipete/agent-scripts --skill video-transcript-downloader -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

steipete

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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 passed all 6 checks. We read its files at one commit and looked for the things that make a skill dangerous to run — not for whether it works.

  • 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 undeclared network calls: passed

    Makes no network calls.

    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.

  • 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 steipete/agent-scripts at 3f8c6a33f9.

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

Commit
3f8c6a33f9
Manifest
skills/video-transcript-downloader/SKILL.md
Scanned
4 files, 593 lines
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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.