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ls-youtube-transcript

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Turn YouTube links into searchable transcripts.

Content & Communication#transcript#markdown#subtitles#youtube#yt-dlp#archiving#caption parsing
Authorahostbr
Version1.0.0
Installs0

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What problem does it solve?

This Skill eliminates the manual effort of transcribing YouTube videos by automatically fetching captions and converting them into a clean, readable transcript with timestamps.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • YouTube transcript and subtitles export: Pulls metadata and subtitle tracks via yt-dlp, including auto-generated subtitles when needed.
  • Formatted markdown output: Produces a timestamped transcript suitable for reading, quoting, and searching.
  • Best-effort archiving into local databases: Attempts to save transcripts to The Nexus Prismatica database and LiteSuite’s YouTube database so they appear in the relevant panels.

Use Case: When you have a YouTube talk you need to quote from, you can extract the full timestamped transcript, search within it for specific lines, and keep an archived copy for later.

Quick Start

Ask your assistant to get transcript and captions from this YouTube URL and print the resulting markdown transcript.

Dependency Matrix

Required Modules

None required

Components

Standard package

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Name: ls-youtube-transcript
Download link: https://github.com/ahostbr/liteharness/archive/main.zip#ls-youtube-transcript

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