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Youtube Transcript English

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Use when fetching YouTube transcripts that must come back in English. Wraps the locally installed jdepoix/youtube-transcript-api package, requests English first, uses YouTube translation when available, then falls back to AI translation. Use for video transcript extraction, caption retrieval, transcript-to-text, JSON/SRT/VTT export, and transcript ingestion before summarization.

From the source SKILL.md

Use this skill when a YouTube transcript must come back in English.

What this skill does

Youtube Transcript English is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the video sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/youtube-transcript-english/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when fetching YouTube transcripts that must come back in English. Wraps the locally installed jdepoix/youtube-transcript-api package, requests English first, uses YouTube translation when available, then falls back to AI translation.

Who uses this skill

The Youtube Transcript English 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 69,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

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

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

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

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

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Pro

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Attribution & license

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