TranscriptAPI

by ZeroPointRepo

TranscriptAPI is an AI Engineering 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

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Install TranscriptAPI

Copy TranscriptAPI 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/transcriptapi ~/.claude/skills/transcriptapi

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/transcriptapi/SKILL.md in ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/transcriptapi
Collection: One of 24 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What TranscriptAPI does

TranscriptAPI fetches YouTube transcripts, searches videos and channels, and browses channel or playlist content from a single API. Use it for summaries, quotes, translations, topic research, and creator lookups when video content is relevant.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

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.

API Reference

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

Frequently asked about TranscriptAPI

What else does ZeroPointRepo publish alongside TranscriptAPI?
TranscriptAPI is one of 24 skills that DirSkills catalogs from ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Captions, Captions and Subtitles. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way TranscriptAPI 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 TranscriptAPI compare to other AI Engineering skills?
TranscriptAPI ranks #2029 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. 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 TranscriptAPI against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.