Video transcript downloader

Skill mouadja02/skills/skills/documentation/video-transcript-downloader

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Install

npx -y skills add mouadja02/skills --skill video-transcript-downloader

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yt-dlp video downloads: video, audio, subtitles, transcripts, clips, playlists — YouTube and more.

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Video Transcript Downloader

Attribution: Sourced from steipete/agent-scripts by Peter Steinberger.

When to Use

Downloading video, audio, or subtitle tracks from YouTube and other platforms
Extracting transcripts or captions for content analysis
Clipping segments or downloading playlists via yt-dlp

Download and extract transcripts/video/audio from YouTube and other video platforms using yt-dlp.

Capabilities

Print a transcript as a clean paragraph (timestamps optional).
Download video/audio/subtitles.

Transcript behavior:

YouTube: fetch via youtube-transcript-plus when possible.
Otherwise: pull subtitles via yt-dlp, then clean into a paragraph.

Transcript

# Clean paragraph transcript (default)
yt-dlp --write-auto-subs --skip-download --sub-format vtt --sub-langs en URL
# Or use yt-dlp subtitles

# With timestamps
yt-dlp --write-auto-subs --skip-download --convert-subs srt --sub-langs en URL

Download Video / Audio / Subtitles

# Video
yt-dlp URL -o '%(title)s.%(ext)s'

# Audio only
yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 URL

# Subtitles
yt-dlp --write-subs --skip-download --sub-langs en URL

# List available formats
yt-dlp -F URL

# Download specific format
yt-dlp -f 137+140 URL

# Prefer MP4 without re-encoding
yt-dlp --remux-video mp4 URL

Notes

Default transcript output is a single paragraph. Use timestamp-preserving formats only when asked.
Bracketed cues like [Music] appear in auto-generated subtitles; filter with sed or grep -v '^\[' .
For playlists: yt-dlp --yes-playlist URL

Troubleshooting

# Install dependencies
brew install yt-dlp ffmpeg

# Verify
yt-dlp --version
ffmpeg -version | head -n 1