Youtube transcript
Skill ulpi-io/plugin-marketplace/plugins/intellectronica/skills/youtube-transcript
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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.
SKILL.md
1.5 KB, 301 tokens by cl100k_base, as published. Nobody here has run it
YouTube Transcript
Extract transcripts from YouTube videos using the youtube-transcript-api.
Usage
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
Defaults
- Without timestamps (default): Plain text, one line per caption segment
- With timestamps:
[MM:SS] textformat (or[HH:MM:SS]for longer videos)
Supported URL Formats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_IDhttps://youtu.be/VIDEO_IDhttps://youtube.com/embed/VIDEO_ID- Raw video ID (11 characters)
Output
- CRITICAL: YOU MUST NEVER MODIFY THE RETURNED TRANSCRIPT
- If the transcript is without timestamps, you SHOULD clean it up so that it is arranged by complete paragraphs and the lines don't cut in the middle of sentences.
- If you were asked to save the transcript to a specific file, save it to the requested file.
- If no output file was specified, use the YouTube video ID with a
-transcript.txtsuffix.
Notes
- Fetches auto-generated or manually added captions (whichever is available)
- Requires the video to have captions enabled
- Falls back to auto-generated captions if manual ones aren't available
What ships with it: 1 file
2.2 KB alongside SKILL.md, 1 of them executable
scripts/
- get_transcript.pyruns2.2 KB
Gives 0 of the 12 instructions most video audio skills give in 301 tokens
Counted across 622 of the 795 authors here whose files we hold, read 2026-08-07
- read individual rule files for detailed explanationsin 21 of 622, across 10 files
- render final videoin 13 of 622, across 6 files
- Use WAV PCM 16kHz mono audio formatin 12 of 622, across 3 files
- Use this skill when dealing with Remotion codein 11 of 622, across 4 files
- save generated audio to a WAV filein 11 of 622, across 4 files
- handle conversion errors gracefullyin 10 of 622, across 6 files
- add captions to videos alwaysin 10 of 622, across 4 files
- generate music from text descriptions using MusicGenin 9 of 622, across 2 files
- do not skip pipeline layersin 9 of 622, across 3 files
- do not make one tool do everythingin 9 of 622, across 3 files
- use azure document intelligence for complex pdfsin 9 of 622, across 4 files
- never ask the user to paste their full API keyin 9 of 622, across 3 files
Grouped from the skills themselves: near-identical wordings counted once, and counted by distinct author, so one author publishing three of these counts once. Length counted with cl100k_base; the agent that loads this file may tokenize it differently.