Pi-skills youtube-transcript

Fetch transcripts from YouTube videos for summarization and analysis.

install
source · Clone the upstream repo
git clone https://github.com/badlogic/pi-skills
Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/
T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/badlogic/pi-skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/youtube-transcript" ~/.claude/skills/badlogic-pi-skills-youtube-transcript && rm -rf "$T"
manifest: youtube-transcript/SKILL.md
source content

YouTube Transcript

Fetch transcripts from YouTube videos.

Setup

cd {baseDir}
npm install

Usage

{baseDir}/transcript.js <video-id-or-url>

Accepts video ID or full URL:

  • EBw7gsDPAYQ
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBw7gsDPAYQ
  • https://youtu.be/EBw7gsDPAYQ

Output

Timestamped transcript entries:

[0:00] All right. So, I got this UniFi Theta
[0:15] I took the camera out, painted it
[1:23] And here's the final result

Notes

  • Requires the video to have captions/transcripts available
  • Works with auto-generated and manual transcripts