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Video transcript downloader

Skill ulpi-io/plugin-marketplace/plugins/steipete/skills/video-transcript-downloader

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Install
npx -y skills add ulpi-io/plugin-marketplace --skill video-transcript-downloader

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Download videos, audio, subtitles, and clean paragraph-style transcripts from YouTube and any other yt-dlp supported site. Use when asked to “download this video”, “save this clip”, “rip audio”, “get subtitles”, “get transcript”, or to troubleshoot yt-dlp/ffmpeg and formats/playlists.

SKILL.md

2.3 KB, 526 tokens by cl100k_base, as published. Nobody here has run it

Video Transcript Downloader

./scripts/vtd.js can:

  • 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.

Setup

cd ~/Projects/agent-scripts/skills/video-transcript-downloader && npm ci

Transcript (default: clean paragraph)

./scripts/vtd.js transcript --url 'https://…'
./scripts/vtd.js transcript --url 'https://…' --lang en
./scripts/vtd.js transcript --url 'https://…' --timestamps
./scripts/vtd.js transcript --url 'https://…' --keep-brackets

Download video / audio / subtitles

./scripts/vtd.js download --url 'https://…' --output-dir ~/Downloads
./scripts/vtd.js audio --url 'https://…' --output-dir ~/Downloads
./scripts/vtd.js subs --url 'https://…' --output-dir ~/Downloads --lang en

Formats (list + choose)

List available formats (format ids, resolution, container, audio-only, etc):

./scripts/vtd.js formats --url 'https://…'

Download a specific format id (example):

./scripts/vtd.js download --url 'https://…' --output-dir ~/Downloads -- --format 137+140

Prefer MP4 container without re-encoding (remux when possible):

./scripts/vtd.js download --url 'https://…' --output-dir ~/Downloads -- --remux-video mp4

Notes

  • Default transcript output is a single paragraph. Use --timestamps only when asked.
  • Bracketed cues like [Music] are stripped by default; keep them via --keep-brackets.
  • Pass extra yt-dlp args after -- for transcript fallback, download, audio, subs, formats.
./scripts/vtd.js formats --url 'https://…' -- -v

Troubleshooting (only when needed)

  • Missing yt-dlp / ffmpeg:
brew install yt-dlp ffmpeg
  • Verify:
yt-dlp --version
ffmpeg -version | head -n 1

What ships with it: 3 files

13.5 KB alongside SKILL.md, 1 of them executable

scripts/

Gives 0 of the 12 instructions most video audio skills give in 526 tokens

Counted across 622 of the 795 authors here whose files we hold, read 2026-08-07

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  • 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

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