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ytdlp-transcript — YouTube to Text via yt-dlp

Easy

Extract text transcripts from YouTube videos via yt-dlp tool

Install

Use in AI Agents

Claude Code

# Install Skill (downloads SKILL.md to .claude/skills/)
clawhub install ytdlp-transcript

# Then just tell Claude: "use ytdlp-transcript — YouTube to Text via yt-dlp to help me..."

OpenAI Codex / Cursor / Windsurf

# Same install command — works with all SKILL.md-compatible AI coding tools
clawhub install ytdlp-transcript

OpenClaw Ecosystem

This Skill is compatible with the OpenClaw standard. After installation, a SKILL.md file is auto-generated, usable by any OpenClaw-compatible AI Agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.).

Environment & Dependencies

SKILL.md

Fetch and summarize transcripts from any YouTube video using yt-dlp.

Usage

Ask your agent:

"Get the transcript of [YouTube URL]"
"Summarize this video: [YouTube URL]"
"What is the main message of [YouTube URL]?"
"Translate and explain this video: [YouTube URL]"

How It Works

Uses yt-dlp to download auto-generated or manual captions from YouTube. Supports all languages — defaults to Portuguese (pt), falls back to English (en).

Requirements

yt-dlp installed: brew install yt-dlp
Node.js 18+

Script

node skills/youtube-transcript/transcript.js <youtube-url-or-id> [lang]

Example

node skills/youtube-transcript/transcript.js https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAdJsmTe8LM pt

Code Example

clawhub run ytdlp-transcript --url "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID" --language auto --output transcript.txt --format json

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Test Report

Real cold-start runs of this skill on Claude Code and Codex.

1 tasksClaude Code · Codex100% pass

YouTube subtitles → cleaned transcript

Input: Fetch English subtitles of a YouTube video (3Blue1Brown, neural networks; no video download) and clean them into a readable transcript.txt.

Skill: ytdlp-transcriptAlso used: yt-dlp

Claude CodePass

Score /5

Rounds

Output: transcript.txt — 3357 words; both outputs byte-identical.

Verdict: Correctness tied 5/5 (identical output). Efficiency gap widens on multi-step cleanup: Codex 35 steps vs Claude 11.