Extract transcripts from YouTube videos. An agent skill from intellectronica/agent-skills.
$ npx skills add intellectronica/agent-skills --skill youtube-transcript -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install intellectronica/agent-skills youtube-transcript --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/intellectronica/agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/youtube-transcript .claude/skills/youtube-transcript && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "youtube-transcript" agent skill from https://github.com/intellectronica/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/youtube-transcript into .claude/skills/youtube-transcript/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "youtube-transcript", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/intellectronica/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/youtube-transcriptType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add intellectronica/agent-skills --skill youtube-transcript -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install intellectronica/agent-skills youtube-transcript --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/intellectronica/agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/youtube-transcript .agents/skills/youtube-transcript && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "youtube-transcript" agent skill from https://github.com/intellectronica/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/youtube-transcript into .agents/skills/youtube-transcript/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "youtube-transcript", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add intellectronica/agent-skills --skill youtube-transcript -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install intellectronica/agent-skills youtube-transcript --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/intellectronica/agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/youtube-transcript .cursor/skills/youtube-transcript && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "youtube-transcript" agent skill from https://github.com/intellectronica/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/youtube-transcript into .cursor/skills/youtube-transcript/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "youtube-transcript", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/intellectronica/agent-skills.git --path skills/youtube-transcript--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add intellectronica/agent-skills --skill youtube-transcript -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install intellectronica/agent-skills youtube-transcript --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/intellectronica/agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/youtube-transcript .gemini/skills/youtube-transcript && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "youtube-transcript" agent skill from https://github.com/intellectronica/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/youtube-transcript into .gemini/skills/youtube-transcript/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "youtube-transcript", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install intellectronica/agent-skills youtube-transcriptInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add intellectronica/agent-skills --skill youtube-transcript -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/intellectronica/agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/youtube-transcript .github/skills/youtube-transcript && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "youtube-transcript" agent skill from https://github.com/intellectronica/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/youtube-transcript into .github/skills/youtube-transcript/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "youtube-transcript", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add intellectronica/agent-skills --skill youtube-transcript -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install intellectronica/agent-skills youtube-transcript --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/intellectronica/agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/youtube-transcript .opencode/skills/youtube-transcript && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "youtube-transcript" agent skill from https://github.com/intellectronica/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/youtube-transcript into .opencode/skills/youtube-transcript/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "youtube-transcript", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
youtube-transcriptExtract transcripts from YouTube videos. An agent skill from intellectronica/agent-skills.
Youtube Transcript is an agent skill from intellectronica/agent-skills. Extract transcripts from YouTube videos. Use when the user asks for a transcript, subtitles, or captions of a YouTube video and provides a YouTube URL (youtube.com/watch?v=, youtu.be/, or similar). Supports output with or without timestamps.
Its SKILL.md is about 390 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including scripts (for example `scripts/get_transcript.py`).
It sits in Knowledge Management, covering Transcription and Video and podcast notes. It works with YouTube. The repository describes itself as: @intellectronica's agent skills. The licence is CC0-1.0.
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9b0e00a. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
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.
Ships 1 file in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
uvFrom the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:
youtube.comyoutu.beFrom URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Youtube Transcript loads about 394 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 65 tokens; SKILL.md has 153 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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.
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.
The full file from intellectronica/agent-skills at commit 9b0e00a, republished under its CC0-1.0 licence (© intellectronica). 153 words, ~394 tokens.
.claude/skills/youtube-transcript/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.Extract transcripts from YouTube videos using the youtube-transcript-api.
Run the script with a YouTube URL or video ID:
uv run scripts/get_transcript.py "VIDEO_URL_OR_ID"With timestamps:
uv run scripts/get_transcript.py "VIDEO_URL_OR_ID" --timestamps[MM:SS] text format (or [HH:MM:SS] for longer videos)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_IDhttps://youtu.be/VIDEO_IDhttps://youtube.com/embed/VIDEO_ID-transcript.txt suffix.© intellectronica, CC0-1.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
SKILL.md and 1 other file (scripts) in skills/youtube-transcript of intellectronica/agent-skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9b0e00a
We found 3 copies of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 2 other GitHub owners. This page covers the copy in intellectronica/agent-skills, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.
Youtube Transcript next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Youtube Transcript this skillintellectronica/agent-skills | 295 | 2 repos | ~394 | Automated safety check: Pass | CC0-1.0 | |
| Youtube FetcherJimmySadek/youtube-fetcher-to-markdown | 485 | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Video Lenskar2phi/video-lens | 112 | — | ~8.2k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | |
| Youtube Transcript Extractor API Skillbrowser-act/skills | 6.1k | 1 repos | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Youtube Transcriptglebis/claude-skills | 388 | — | ~613 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Youtube Transcriptaiskillstore/marketplace | 430 | 1 repos | ~553 | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT |
JimmySadek/youtube-fetcher-to-markdown
Retrieve YouTube transcripts and subtitles, summarize or analyze what was said, or save an Obsidian-ready Markdown knowledge-base note with captions, creator metadata, chapters, language, and source…
kar2phi/video-lens
Fetch a YouTube transcript and generate an executive summary, key points, and timestamped topic list as a polished HTML report.
browser-act/skills
This skill helps users automatically extract YouTube video transcripts and metadata via the BrowserAct API.
glebis/claude-skills
Extract YouTube video transcripts with metadata and save as Markdown to Obsidian vault.
aiskillstore/marketplace
Download and process YouTube video transcripts using yt-dlp.
browser-act/skills
This skill helps users extract YouTube video transcripts and perform deep competitive analysis on the content.
intellectronica/agent-skills
Render Mermaid diagrams as SVG and PNG using the Beautiful Mermaid library.
intellectronica/agent-skills
Generate and edit images using OpenAI's GPT Image 1.5 model.
intellectronica/agent-skills
Generate and edit images using Google's Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview) API.
intellectronica/agent-skills
Generate and edit images using Google's Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) API.
intellectronica/agent-skills
This skill provides comprehensive instructions for interacting with the Notion API via REST calls.
intellectronica/agent-skills
Convert documents and files to Markdown using markitdown. An agent skill from intellectronica/agent-skills.
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Extract transcripts from YouTube videos. An agent skill from intellectronica/agent-skills. Youtube Transcript is an agent skill from intellectronica/agent-skills. Extract transcripts from YouTube videos.
Youtube Transcript fits situations like: the user asks for a transcript; captions of a YouTube video and provides a YouTube URL (youtube.com/watch?v=.
Run `npx skills add intellectronica/agent-skills --skill youtube-transcript -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/youtube-transcript in intellectronica/agent-skills) into .claude/skills/youtube-transcript in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
Run `npx skills add intellectronica/agent-skills --skill youtube-transcript -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/youtube-transcript in intellectronica/agent-skills) into .agents/skills/youtube-transcript in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add intellectronica/agent-skills --skill youtube-transcript -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-transcript, .gemini/skills/youtube-transcript, .github/skills/youtube-transcript and .opencode/skills/youtube-transcript in your project.
Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Youtube Transcript needs Python for the scripts in its folder and the command-line tools its instructions call (uv). Our summary lists: Python 3.
SKILL.md names 2 domains. In commands or code: youtube.com and youtu.be; the agent is likely to contact these when it follows the instructions. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
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.
Youtube Transcript is published under the CC0-1.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
About 394 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Youtube Transcript: Youtube Fetcher (JimmySadek/youtube-fetcher-to-markdown, 485 stars), Video Lens (kar2phi/video-lens, 112 stars), Youtube Transcript Extractor API Skill (browser-act/skills, 6.1k stars) and Youtube Transcript (glebis/claude-skills, 388 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
intellectronica (a GitHub user) maintains it in intellectronica/agent-skills, which has 295 GitHub stars. The repository holds 21 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on April 25, 2026.
Source: intellectronica/agent-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.
