youtube-transcript

To extract a YouTube transcript into Markdown, the skill processes video URLs to fetch subtitles and metadata, formatting the text with YAML frontmatter and chapter groupings directly into an Obsidian vault file.

Yes, you need yt-dlp installed as a dependency. The script uses it to fetch video data and VTT subtitle files, which are then parsed, deduplicated, and formatted into a clean Markdown document.

Yes, you can group YouTube transcript entries by chapters. The skill parses available chapter data from the video, organizes the text segments accordingly, and preserves timing for easy navigation within the Markdown file.

The best way to save YouTube metadata with YAML frontmatter is using a dedicated extraction script that captures video details and subtitles, formatting them into a structured Markdown document for local knowledge management.

YouTube subtitle VTT files often contain duplicate sequential entries. The script applies a deduplication process to parse these entries and remove redundancies, ensuring a clean transcript in the final Markdown output.