Why? Manually downloading transcripts one-by-one is tedious and error-prone. This skill automates bulk transcript downloads with rate limiting, progress tracking, and resume capability.
Download Transcripts is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the content-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/download-transcripts/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when you need to download transcripts in bulk with progress tracking, fetching transcripts overnight, processing video libraries, or when the user mentions "get transcripts", "download captions", or "bulk transcript download".
The Download Transcripts Claude Code skill is built for content creators, marketers, copywriters, SEO professionals, and editorial teams. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 116,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/download-transcripts curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/download-transcripts/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/download-transcripts/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/download-transcripts/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/download-transcripts/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\download-transcripts\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/download-transcripts/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Download Transcripts is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Content category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{download-transcripts-2026,
author = {ClaudSkills},
title = {Download Transcripts [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/download-transcripts/}
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