youtube-transcript

To download YouTube transcripts automatically, provide a video URL and the skill uses yt-dlp to fetch manual or auto-generated subtitles, outputting VTT files while handling filename cleanup automatically.

Yes, when subtitles are unavailable, this skill optionally performs Whisper transcription after user confirmation to generate the missing captions. This ensures you get a transcript even for videos lacking native subtitles.

You must install yt-dlp to extract YouTube captions, but Whisper is optional and only required when you need to transcribe videos lacking available subtitles.

The best way to fetch YouTube subtitles as VTT files for automation is using this skill, which leverages yt-dlp to retrieve captions and manages temporary file cleanup. This provides clean VTT outputs suitable for downstream processing.

Yes, this YouTube transcript skill supports downloading both manual and auto-generated subtitles via yt-dlp. It prioritizes available subtitles before falling back to optional Whisper transcription if none exist.

YouTube subtitle extraction fails when a video has no manual or auto-generated captions available. This skill handles that limitation by optionally prompting for Whisper-based transcription to generate the missing text.