Agent Skills: YouTube Transcript Downloader

Download YouTube video transcripts with timestamps. Use when asked to transcribe a YouTube video, get transcript, or extract text from a video URL.

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pnpm dlx add-skill https://github.com/rajshah4/my-agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/youtube-transcribe

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Skill Metadata

Name
youtube-transcribe
Description
Download YouTube video transcripts with timestamps. Use when asked to transcribe a YouTube video, get transcript, or extract text from a video URL.

YouTube Transcript Downloader

Use the ai-transcribe CLI tool to download transcripts from YouTube videos.

Usage

ai-transcribe "https://youtu.be/VIDEO_ID"
ai-transcribe "https://youtu.be/VIDEO_ID" --seconds  # Use seconds for timestamps
ai-transcribe "https://youtu.be/VIDEO_ID" > transcript.txt  # Save to file

Requirements

  • The hamel_tools package must be installed: pip install hamel_tools

Output

Returns transcript text with timestamps in HH:MM:SS format (default) or seconds with --seconds flag.