video-transcript-downloader

To download a YouTube transcript, you can use this Skill to fetch existing subtitles via youtube-transcript-plus or parse available subtitle files, generating a clean, paragraph-style text output with optional timestamps and bracketed cues.

Yes, you can download audio-only versions from YouTube and other yt-dlp supported sites by selecting the audio format option, which requires the optional installation of yt-dlp and ffmpeg via brew for media processing.

Yes, npm packages are required for execution to extract subtitles and transcripts from online videos, while optionally installing yt-dlp and ffmpeg through brew enables full video and audio downloading capabilities.

The best way to get timestamped transcripts from yt-dlp supported sites is to use the transcript fetching mechanism, which provides options for timestamped output and bracketed cues alongside format selection for the downloaded media.

Yes, the video downloader supports format selection, allowing you to list available video or audio formats and download specific versions, handling media retrieval through yt-dlp for supported platforms like YouTube.

Your video transcript download requires ffmpeg and brew optionally because ffmpeg handles the audio and video processing for downloading entire media files, while brew installs these dependencies on your system for yt-dlp execution.