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Youtube Transcript Extractor API Skill

Category: Content  ·  Sub-category: video  ·  Last updated:
type:integration
This skill helps users automatically extract YouTube video transcripts and metadata via the BrowserAct API. The Agent should proactively apply this skill when users express needs like extracting full transcript from a specific YouTube video, getting subtitles and metadata for video content analysis, gathering video titles and likes counts, summarizing YouTube videos without watching them, collecting channel details from a video URL, tracking transcript automation for specific videos, scraping YouTube subtitles for internal knowledge bases, fetching full video content for AI summarization pipelines, downloading structured transcripts from YouTube links, analyzing video text content for media research, monitoring video publisher information and channel links, or building datasets from YouTube video transcripts.

What this skill does

Youtube Transcript Extractor API Skill 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-extractor-api-skill/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

Who uses this skill

The Youtube Transcript Extractor API Skill 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-extractor-api-skill
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/youtube-transcript-extractor-api-skill/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/youtube-transcript-extractor-api-skill/SKILL.md

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

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

Pro

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Attribution & license

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