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Agent skill

Youtube Batch Transcript Extractor API Skill

by browser-act in browser-act/skills

This skill helps users automatically extract YouTube video transcripts and metadata in batch via the BrowserAct API.

MITAuto-check passedMedia & Creative

Install Youtube Batch Transcript Extractor API Skill

skills CLI
$ npx skills add browser-act/skills --skill youtube-batch-transcript-extractor-api-skill -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install browser-act/skills youtube-batch-transcript-extractor-api-skill --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/browser-act/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/solutions/video-platforms/youtube-batch-transcript-extractor-api-skill .claude/skills/youtube-batch-transcript-extractor-api-skill && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
youtube-batch-transcript-extractor-api-skill
GitHub stars
6.1k
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
619 words
Files
2 (incl. scripts)
Skills in repo
87
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

This skill helps users automatically extract YouTube video transcripts and metadata in batch via the BrowserAct API.

  • Works in 5 steps: No hallucinations, ensuring stable and… → No CAPTCHA issues: No need to handle… → No IP access restrictions or geofencing:… → …
  • Tasks that involve Transcription
  • SKILL.md covers 📖 Introduction, ✨ Features, 🔑 API Key Guide Process and 🛠️ Input Parameters, plus 3 more sections
  • Runs Python scripts from its folder; calls python; needs BROWSERACT_API_KEY

What it does

Youtube Batch Transcript Extractor API Skill is an agent skill from browser-act/skills. This skill helps users automatically extract YouTube video transcripts and metadata in batch via the BrowserAct API. The Agent should proactively apply this skill when users express needs like batch extract full transcripts from YouTube videos for specific keywords, scrape YouTube subtitles for a list of videos, get batch video metadata and likes counts for analysis, automate YouTube search and subtitle extraction, collect multiple video transcripts published this week, download bulk YouTube video subtitles…

Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including scripts (for example `scripts/youtube_batch_transcript_extractor_api.py`).

It sits in Media & Creative, covering Transcription, Web scraping and Video and podcast notes. It works with YouTube. The repository describes itself as: Browser automation CLI built for AI agents. Break through anti-bot walls, hand off to humans across platforms when stuck. Parallel multi-task execution, independent multi-session… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Transcription
  • Tasks that involve Web scraping
  • Tasks that involve Video and podcast notes

Example prompts

  • “/youtube-batch-transcript-extractor-api-skill”

Requirements

  • Python 3
  • A credential in BROWSERACT_API_KEY

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. No hallucinations, ensuring stable and accurate data extraction: Pre-set workflows avoid generative AI hallucinations.
  2. No CAPTCHA issues: No need to handle reCAPTCHA or other verification challenges.
  3. No IP access restrictions or geofencing: No need to deal with regional IP restrictions.
  4. Faster execution: Tasks execute faster compared to pure AI-driven browser automation solutions.
  5. High cost-effectiveness: Significantly reduces data acquisition costs compared to AI solutions that consume a large number of tokens.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 11c057b. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Ships 1 file in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • python

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • browseract.com

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

    • BROWSERACT_API_KEY

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Youtube Batch Transcript Extractor API Skill loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 237 tokens; SKILL.md has 619 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~237
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.4k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from browser-act/skills at commit 11c057b, republished under its MIT licence (© browser-act). 619 words, ~1,394 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/youtube-batch-transcript-extractor-api-skill/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
youtube-batch-transcript-extractor-api-skill
description
This skill helps users automatically extract YouTube video transcripts and metadata in batch via the BrowserAct API. The Agent should proactively apply this skill when users express needs like batch extract full transcripts from YouTube videos for specific keywords, scrape YouTube subtitles for a list of videos, get batch video metadata and likes counts for analysis, automate YouTube search and subtitle extraction, collect multiple video transcripts published this week, download bulk YouTube video subtitles without writing crawler scripts, build a dataset of transcripts from top YouTube videos, extract YouTube video URLs and publisher info in batch, gather full video content for AI summarization pipelines, monitor recent YouTube videos and extract their transcripts, batch retrieve structured subtitle data for media research, extract transcripts from trending YouTube content automatically.

YouTube Batch Transcript Extractor API Skill

📖 Introduction

This skill uses the BrowserAct YouTube Batch Transcript Extractor API template to provide users with an automated service for extracting YouTube video transcripts and metadata in batch. Simply by providing search keywords and filters, you can batch extract full video transcripts, likes, and channel metadata without writing crawler scripts.

✨ Features

  1. No hallucinations, ensuring stable and accurate data extraction: Pre-set workflows avoid generative AI hallucinations.
  2. No CAPTCHA issues: No need to handle reCAPTCHA or other verification challenges.
  3. No IP access restrictions or geofencing: No need to deal with regional IP restrictions.
  4. Faster execution: Tasks execute faster compared to pure AI-driven browser automation solutions.
  5. High cost-effectiveness: Significantly reduces data acquisition costs compared to AI solutions that consume a large number of tokens.

🔑 API Key Guide Process

Before running, you must check the BROWSERACT_API_KEY environment variable. If it is not set, do not take any other actions; you should request and wait for the user to provide it collaboratively. The Agent must inform the user at this time:

"Since you have not yet configured the BrowserAct API Key, please go to the BrowserAct Console to get your Key first."

🛠️ Input Parameters

When calling the script, the Agent should flexibly configure the following parameters based on user needs:

  1. KeyWords

    • Type: string
    • Description: The keyword to search for on YouTube.
    • Example: OpenClaw, AI Automation

  2. Upload_date

    • Type: string
    • Description: Filter for the upload date of the videos.
    • Optional values: Today, This week, This month, This year.
    • Default value: This week

  3. Datelimit

    • Type: number
    • Description: The number of videos to extract. Adjust as needed.
    • Default value: 5
    • Recommendation: Set a smaller value (1-5) for quick tests and a larger value for bulk extraction.

The Agent should execute the following independent script to achieve "one-line command to get results":

bash
# Example invocation
python -u ./scripts/youtube_batch_transcript_extractor_api.py "keywords" "Upload_date" Datelimit
⏳ Execution Status Monitoring

Since this task involves automated browser operations, it may take a long time (several minutes). The script will continuously output timestamped status logs (e.g., [14:30:05] Task Status: running) while running. Agent Notes:

  • While waiting for the script to return results, please keep an eye on the terminal output.
  • As long as the terminal is still outputting new status logs, it means the task is running normally. Please do not mistakenly judge it as a deadlock or unresponsiveness.
  • Only consider triggering the retry mechanism if the status remains unchanged for a long time or the script stops outputting without returning a result.
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📊 Data Output Description

After successful execution, the script will parse and print the results directly from the API response. The results include:

  • Video title: The title of the YouTube video.
  • Video URL: The direct link to the original video.
  • Publisher: The name of the channel publishing the video.
  • Channel link: The URL of the publisher's YouTube channel.
  • Video likes count: The number of likes the video has received.
  • Subtitles: The complete extracted transcript/subtitles of the videos.

⚠️ Error Handling & Retry

If an error is encountered during the execution of the script (such as network fluctuation or task failure), the Agent should follow the logic below:

  1. Check the output content:

    • If the output contains "Invalid authorization", it indicates that the API Key is invalid or expired. Do not retry at this time. You should guide the user to recheck and provide the correct API Key.
    • If the output does not contain "Invalid authorization" but the task execution fails (for example, the output starts with Error: or returns an empty result), the Agent should automatically try to execute the script once more.

  2. Retry limits:

    • Automatic retry is limited to once. If the second attempt still fails, stop retrying and report the specific error message to the user.

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Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (scripts) in solutions/video-platforms/youtube-batch-transcript-extractor-api-skill of browser-act/skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • scripts/youtube_batch_transcript_extractor_api.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 11c057b

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in browser-act/skills, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Questions about Youtube Batch Transcript Extractor API Skill

What does Youtube Batch Transcript Extractor API Skill do?

This skill helps users automatically extract YouTube video transcripts and metadata in batch via the BrowserAct API. Youtube Batch Transcript Extractor API Skill is an agent skill from browser-act/skills. This skill helps users automatically extract YouTube video transcripts and metadata in batch via the BrowserAct API.

When should I use Youtube Batch Transcript Extractor API Skill?

Youtube Batch Transcript Extractor API Skill fits situations like: tasks that involve Transcription; tasks that involve Web scraping; tasks that involve Video and podcast notes.

How do I install Youtube Batch Transcript Extractor API Skill in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add browser-act/skills --skill youtube-batch-transcript-extractor-api-skill -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (solutions/video-platforms/youtube-batch-transcript-extractor-api-skill in browser-act/skills) into .claude/skills/youtube-batch-transcript-extractor-api-skill in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Youtube Batch Transcript Extractor API Skill in Codex?

Run `npx skills add browser-act/skills --skill youtube-batch-transcript-extractor-api-skill -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (solutions/video-platforms/youtube-batch-transcript-extractor-api-skill in browser-act/skills) into .agents/skills/youtube-batch-transcript-extractor-api-skill in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Youtube Batch Transcript Extractor API Skill in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add browser-act/skills --skill youtube-batch-transcript-extractor-api-skill -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/youtube-batch-transcript-extractor-api-skill, .gemini/skills/youtube-batch-transcript-extractor-api-skill, .github/skills/youtube-batch-transcript-extractor-api-skill and .opencode/skills/youtube-batch-transcript-extractor-api-skill in your project.

What does Youtube Batch Transcript Extractor API Skill need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Youtube Batch Transcript Extractor API Skill needs Python for the scripts in its folder, the command-line tools its instructions call (python) and credentials named BROWSERACT_API_KEY. Our summary lists: Python 3; A credential in BROWSERACT_API_KEY.

Does Youtube Batch Transcript Extractor API Skill access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: browseract.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Youtube Batch Transcript Extractor API Skill safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does Youtube Batch Transcript Extractor API Skill use?

Youtube Batch Transcript Extractor API Skill is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Youtube Batch Transcript Extractor API Skill use?

About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Youtube Batch Transcript Extractor API Skill?

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Who maintains Youtube Batch Transcript Extractor API Skill?

browser-act (a GitHub organization) maintains it in browser-act/skills, which has 6,108 GitHub stars. The repository holds 87 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 24, 2026.

Source: browser-act/skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.