Fetching Youtube Transcripts

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: Content · Sub-category: video

Fetch transcripts and subtitles from YouTube videos using youtube-transcript-api. Use when extracting video transcripts, listing available languages, translating captions, or processing YouTube content for summarization or analysis.

What this skill does

Fetching Youtube Transcripts is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the video sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/fetching-youtube-transcripts/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when extracting video transcripts, listing available languages, translating captions, or processing YouTube content for summarization or analysis.

Who uses this skill

The Fetching Youtube Transcripts skill is built for content creators, marketers, copywriters, SEO professionals, and editorial teams. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/fetching-youtube-transcripts
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/fetching-youtube-transcripts/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/fetching-youtube-transcripts/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/fetching-youtube-transcripts/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/fetching-youtube-transcripts/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\fetching-youtube-transcripts\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.