YouTube Transcript

SkillMedia

Extract transcripts from YouTube videos using the youtube-transcript-api.

Then ask your AI: use the YouTube Transcript skill

Details

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Add it as a step in a pipeline you build on Ahel, or connect Ahel to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex and ask your AI to use it.

About this skill

Extract transcripts from YouTube videos. Use when the user asks for a transcript, subtitles, or captions of a YouTube video and provides a YouTube URL (youtube.com/watch?v=, youtu.be/, or similar). Supports output with or without timestamps.

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by intellectronica/agent-skills in skills/youtube-transcript/SKILL.md and read by Ahel’s review.

Extract transcripts from YouTube videos using the youtube-transcript-api.

Usage

Run the script with a YouTube URL or video ID:

uv run scripts/get_transcript.py "VIDEO_URL_OR_ID"

With timestamps:

uv run scripts/get_transcript.py "VIDEO_URL_OR_ID" --timestamps

Defaults

Without timestamps (default): Plain text, one line per caption segment
With timestamps: [MM:SS] text format (or [HH:MM:SS] for longer videos)

Supported URL Formats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID
https://youtu.be/VIDEO_ID
https://youtube.com/embed/VIDEO_ID
Raw video ID (11 characters)

Output

CRITICAL: YOU MUST NEVER MODIFY THE RETURNED TRANSCRIPT
If the transcript is without timestamps, you SHOULD clean it up so that it is arranged by complete paragraphs and the lines don't cut in the middle of sentences.
If you were asked to save the transcript to a specific file, save it to the requested file.
If no output file was specified, use the YouTube video ID with a -transcript.txt suffix.

Notes

Fetches auto-generated or manually added captions (whichever is available)
Requires the video to have captions enabled
Falls back to auto-generated captions if manual ones aren't available

Signals

GitHub stars: 295
Forks: 27
Last commit: Apr 2026

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Item type: skill
Key: youtube-transcript-intellectronica
Source: github.com/intellectronica/agent-skills

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