youtube-transcript
✓This skill should be used when the user provides a YouTube URL and wants to "download transcript", "get captions", "get subtitles", "transcribe video", or extract text content from a YouTube video. Handles manual subtitles, auto-generated captions, and Whisper transcription as fallback.
SKILL.md
Extract transcripts from YouTube videos using yt-dlp. Supports manual subtitles, auto-generated captions, and Whisper transcription as a last resort.
This skill requires UV for dependency management. Run from the tapestry-skills project root.
All security utilities are available via UV from the project root.
This skill should be used when the user provides a YouTube URL and wants to "download transcript", "get captions", "get subtitles", "transcribe video", or extract text content from a YouTube video. Handles manual subtitles, auto-generated captions, and Whisper transcription as fallback. Source: ryanhudson/tapestry-skills-for-claude-code.
Facts (cite-ready)
Stable fields and commands for AI/search citations.
- Install command
npx skills add https://github.com/ryanhudson/tapestry-skills-for-claude-code --skill youtube-transcript- Category
- *Creative Media
- Verified
- ✓
- First Seen
- 2026-02-01
- Updated
- 2026-02-18
Quick answers
What is youtube-transcript?
This skill should be used when the user provides a YouTube URL and wants to "download transcript", "get captions", "get subtitles", "transcribe video", or extract text content from a YouTube video. Handles manual subtitles, auto-generated captions, and Whisper transcription as fallback. Source: ryanhudson/tapestry-skills-for-claude-code.
How do I install youtube-transcript?
Open your terminal or command line tool (Terminal, iTerm, Windows Terminal, etc.) Copy and run this command: npx skills add https://github.com/ryanhudson/tapestry-skills-for-claude-code --skill youtube-transcript Once installed, the skill will be automatically configured in your AI coding environment and ready to use in Claude Code or Cursor
Where is the source repository?
https://github.com/ryanhudson/tapestry-skills-for-claude-code
Details
- Category
- *Creative Media
- Source
- skills.sh
- First Seen
- 2026-02-01