youtube-content

To turn a YouTube video into a blog post or thread, this Skill fetches the video transcript and applies format-specific transformation logic to rework the text into structured written outputs. It directly converts extracted captions into ready-to-publish drafts.

The best way to summarize long YouTube transcripts is to use a tool that chunks the text before summarization. This Skill extracts the transcript, breaks long sections into manageable pieces, and generates coherent chapter summaries with timestamped quotes.

Yes, you can extract transcripts from YouTube live links, standard URLs, short links, embed links, or raw 11-character video IDs. The Skill uses the youtube-transcript-api to fetch available captions across multiple languages.

If a video has missing transcripts, the Skill validates for non-empty output and retries when language selection fails. However, it cannot generate text if captions are entirely absent from the source video.

To pull timestamped quotes for study notes, the Skill extracts the video transcript and generates timestamped text outputs. It validates the transcript data and structures the extracted quotes for knowledge extraction.

The limitation of using youtube-transcript-api for content repurposing is its reliance on existing platform captions, meaning it fails on videos without transcripts. The Skill mitigates language selection errors with retries but cannot bypass missing source data.