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youtube-transcript

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Get YouTube transcripts, clean and ready to use.

Content & Communication#transcript#video#subtitles#captions#youtube#whisper#text extraction
Authormichalparkola
Version1.0.0
Installs0

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What problem does it solve?

Manually transcribing YouTube videos is time-consuming, and raw VTT files are often messy with duplicate lines. This skill automates clean transcript extraction, saving you hours of manual work.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Automated Transcript Download: Fetches manual or auto-generated subtitles using yt-dlp with robust error handling.
  • Whisper Fallback: Can transcribe video audio with Whisper if no subtitles are available (with user confirmation), ensuring you always get text.
  • Clean Text Output: Automatically deduplicates lines and formats transcripts into readable plain text, ready for analysis or further use.
  • Use Case: Quickly get a clean transcript from an educational video to review key points, extract quotes, or use as input for further analysis or action planning, without the hassle of manual cleanup.

Quick Start

Download the transcript for a YouTube video

Claude will automatically use this skill when you ask:

"Download the transcript for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"

Dependency Matrix

Required Modules

yt-dlpopenai-whisper

Components

scripts

💻 Claude Code Installation

Recommended: Let Claude install automatically. Simply copy and paste the text below to Claude Code.

Please help me install this Skill:
Name: youtube-transcript
Download link: https://github.com/michalparkola/tapestry-skills-for-claude-code/archive/main.zip#youtube-transcript

Please download this .zip file, extract it, and install it in the .claude/skills/ directory.
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