Skills

Youtube Transcript

Fetch transcripts from YouTube videos for summarization and analysis.

Install

npx skills add badlogic/pi-skills --skill youtube-transcript -g -a claude-code -y
Repository
badlogic/pi-skills2.6k
Category
Engineering
Updated
5mo ago
License
MIT
Context cost
Lightabout 150 tokens
Runs scripts
Yes, review before use

What it does

Fetch transcripts from YouTube videos for summarization and analysis.

YouTube Transcript

Fetch transcripts from YouTube videos.

Setup

cd {baseDir}
npm install

Usage

{baseDir}/transcript.js <video-id-or-url>

Accepts video ID or full URL:

  • EBw7gsDPAYQ
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBw7gsDPAYQ
  • https://youtu.be/EBw7gsDPAYQ

Output

Timestamped transcript entries:

[0:00] All right. So, I got this UniFi Theta
[0:15] I took the camera out, painted it
[1:23] And here's the final result

Notes

  • Requires the video to have captions/transcripts available
  • Works with auto-generated and manual transcripts

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