YouTube Transcript Extraction

by feiskyer

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

237 stars33 forkson feiskyer/codex-settingsAdded 2026/09/03Repository 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/codex-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/codex-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/codex-settings
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/youtube-transcribe-skill
Collection: One of 11 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1754 skills

What YouTube Transcript Extraction does

YouTube Transcript Extraction saves subtitles or transcripts from YouTube URLs as normalized timestamped text files. Use it when you need video captions, transcripts, or subtitle text in a local `.txt` file.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

YouTube Transcript Extraction

Use the bundled scripts/transcribe_youtube.py wrapper for the primary workflow. It downloads subtitles with yt-dlp, selects the preferred language, converts WebVTT cues into timestamped plain text, and reports the output path and line count.

Requirements

Install yt-dlp and confirm yt-dlp --version succeeds.
Resolve the absolute directory containing this SKILL.md; refer to it as <skill-dir>.
Keep the output in the user's current working directory unless they request another location.

The Python wrapper itself uses only the standard library. It can display --help without yt-dlp being installed.

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 11 skills that DirSkills catalogs from feiskyer/codex-settings, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Brainstorming, Claude Code Headless Mode 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/codex-settings page.
How does YouTube Transcript Extraction compare to other Automation skills?
YouTube Transcript Extraction ranks #1552 by stars among the 1754 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.