Transcriptapi

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

Full TranscriptAPI toolkit — fetch YouTube transcripts, search videos and channels, browse channel uploads, get latest videos, and explore playlists. Use when the user wants to work with YouTube content programmatically, get transcripts for summarization or analysis, find videos, or monitor channels. Triggers on YouTube URLs, "transcript", "transcriptapi", "video summary", "what did they say", "find videos about", "search youtube".

What this skill does

Transcriptapi is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the content-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/transcriptapi/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when the user wants to work with YouTube content programmatically, get transcripts for summarization or analysis, find videos, or monitor channels. Triggers on YouTube URLs, "transcript", "transcriptapi", "video summary", "what did they say", "find videos about", "search youtube".

Who uses this skill

The Transcriptapi 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/transcriptapi
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/transcriptapi/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/transcriptapi/SKILL.md

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

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/transcriptapi/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\transcriptapi\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.