YouTube Transcribe

by chubbyguan

YouTube Transcribe is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by chubbyguan in chubbyskills.

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Install YouTube Transcribe

Copy YouTube Transcribe 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/chubbyguan/chubbyskills/tree/main/youtube-transcribe ~/.claude/skills/youtube-transcribe

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/chubbyguan/chubbyskills.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: youtube-transcribe/SKILL.md in chubbyguan/chubbyskills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/youtube-transcribe
Collection: One of 14 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What YouTube Transcribe does

YouTube Transcribe downloads YouTube audio or subtitles, transcribes speech, and translates English into Chinese with bilingual Markdown output. Use it to turn videos into notes for study or reference.

YouTube Transcribe is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. YouTube Transcribe comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-agents, chinese, claude-code and knowledge-base.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

YouTube 视频转录 + 翻译 Skill

字幕优先：先抓官方/自动字幕（秒级、免 GPU），抓不到再下载音频用 SenseVoice-Small 转录；英文内容自动翻译成中文，输出中英对照 Markdown。加 --no-subtitle 可强制走音频转录。

为什么需要这个

YouTube 有大量优质英文内容，但很多人没时间看完或语言不通。这个 skill：

转录视频为文字（支持中英文）
英文内容自动翻译成高质量中文
输出中英对照，方便学习

环境要求

# Python 3.9+
python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate

# 依赖
pip install funasr modelscope torch torchaudio

# 系统依赖
# macOS: brew install ffmpeg yt-dlp
# Ubuntu: sudo apt install ffmpeg && pip install yt-dlp

# 翻译功能（可选，英文视频需要）
export DEEPSEEK_API_KEY="your-api-key"

使用方法

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

Frequently asked about YouTube Transcribe

What else does chubbyguan publish alongside YouTube Transcribe?
YouTube Transcribe is one of 14 skills that DirSkills catalogs from chubbyguan/chubbyskills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Bilibili Transcribe, Content Enrich and Douyin Transcription. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way YouTube Transcribe does, and is maintained by chubbyguan in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the chubbyguan/chubbyskills page.
How does YouTube Transcribe compare to other AI Engineering skills?
YouTube Transcribe ranks #1872 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 YouTube Transcribe against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.