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Automation

Captions

by ZeroPointRepo

Captions is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by ZeroPointRepo in youtube-skills.

560 stars56 forkson ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skillsAdded 2026/08/25+5% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/23
agent-skillsclawdbothermes-agentopenclawyoutube-searchyoutube-transcript
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Install Captions
Copy Captions into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.
terminal
npx degit https://github.com/ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills/tree/main/clawhub/captions ~/.claude/skills/captions

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file
clawhub/captions/SKILL.md in ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills
Installs to
~/.claude/skills/captions
Collection
One of 24 skills cataloged from this repository
Category
Automation1523 skills

What Captions does

Captions extracts timestamped transcripts from YouTube videos for reading, quoting, translation, accessibility, and content review. Use it when you need the spoken text of a video, even if captions were not explicitly requested.

Captions is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Captions comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, clawdbot, hermes-agent, openclaw and youtube-search.

Documentation

README

Captions

Extract closed captions from YouTube videos via TranscriptAPI.com.

Setup

If $TRANSCRIPT_API_KEY is not set, read references/auth-setup.md and follow the instructions there to get and store the key.

Required Headers

Every request needs two headers:

  • Authorization: Bearer $TRANSCRIPT_API_KEY
  • User-Agent: your agent's name and version if known (e.g. HermesAgent/0.11.0, ClaudeCode/1.0). Version is optional — agent name alone is fine. Do not omit this header or send a bare default — Cloudflare will return a 403 (error code 1010) and block the request.

GET /api/v2/youtube/transcript

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Captions

  • What else does ZeroPointRepo publish alongside Captions?

    Captions is one of 24 skills that DirSkills catalogs from ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Captions, Subtitles and Subtitles. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Captions does, and is maintained by ZeroPointRepo in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills page.

  • How does Captions compare to other Automation skills?

    Captions ranks #1265 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Captions against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.

More from ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills

Captions is one of 24 skills cataloged on DirSkills from ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills.

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