YouTube Transcript Extraction

by feiskyer

YouTube Transcript Extraction is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by feiskyer in claude-code-settings.

1.6K stars244 forkson feiskyer/claude-code-settingsAdded 2026/08/19Repository updated 2026/08/13

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Install YouTube Transcript Extraction

Copy YouTube Transcript Extraction 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/feiskyer/claude-code-settings/tree/main/skills/youtube-transcribe-skill ~/.claude/skills/youtube-transcribe-skill

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/feiskyer/claude-code-settings.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/youtube-transcribe-skill/SKILL.md in feiskyer/claude-code-settings
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/youtube-transcribe-skill
Collection: One of 12 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What YouTube Transcript Extraction does

YouTube Transcript Extraction extracts subtitles or transcripts from a YouTube video URL and saves them as a local text file. Use it when you need a video's captions for summarization, analysis, or repurposing.

YouTube Transcript Extraction is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. YouTube Transcript Extraction comes from a repository tagged agentic-ai, agents, ai, claude-code and claude-code-agents.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

YouTube Transcript Extraction

Extract subtitles/transcripts from a YouTube video URL and save them as a local file.

Input YouTube URL: $ARGUMENTS

Step 1: Verify URL

Confirm the input is a valid YouTube URL (supports youtube.com/watch?v=, youtu.be/, and youtube.com/shorts/ formats). If no URL is provided via arguments, check the conversation context for a YouTube link.

Step 2: CLI Quick Extraction (Priority Attempt)

Use command-line tools to quickly extract subtitles.

2.1 Check Tool Availability

Execute which yt-dlp.

If yt-dlp is found, proceed to 2.2.
If yt-dlp is not found, skip to Step 3.

2.2 Get Video Title

yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser=chrome --get-title "[VIDEO_URL]"

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

Frequently asked about YouTube Transcript Extraction

What else does feiskyer publish alongside YouTube Transcript Extraction?
YouTube Transcript Extraction is one of 12 skills that DirSkills catalogs from feiskyer/claude-code-settings, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Brainstorming, Codex and Deep Research. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way YouTube Transcript Extraction does, and is maintained by feiskyer in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the feiskyer/claude-code-settings page.
How does YouTube Transcript Extraction compare to other Automation skills?
YouTube Transcript Extraction ranks #563 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 YouTube Transcript Extraction against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.