Openclaw-master-skills video-transcript-downloader

Download videos, audio, subtitles, and clean paragraph-style transcripts from YouTube and any other yt-dlp supported site. Use when asked to “download this video”, “save this clip”, “rip audio”, “get subtitles”, “get transcript”, or to troubleshoot yt-dlp/ffmpeg and formats/playlists.

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/LeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/LeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/video-transcript-downloader" ~/.claude/skills/leoyeai-openclaw-master-skills-video-transcript-downloader && rm -rf "$T"

OpenClaw · Install into ~/.openclaw/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/LeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.openclaw/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/video-transcript-downloader" ~/.openclaw/skills/leoyeai-openclaw-master-skills-video-transcript-downloader && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: skills/video-transcript-downloader/SKILL.md

Video Transcript Downloader

./scripts/vtd.js

can:

Print a transcript as a clean paragraph (timestamps optional).
Download video/audio/subtitles.

Transcript behavior:

YouTube: fetch via
```
youtube-transcript-plus
```
when possible.
Otherwise: pull subtitles via
```
yt-dlp
```
, then clean into a paragraph.

Setup

cd ~/Projects/agent-scripts/skills/video-transcript-downloader && npm ci

Transcript (default: clean paragraph)

./scripts/vtd.js transcript --url 'https://…'
./scripts/vtd.js transcript --url 'https://…' --lang en
./scripts/vtd.js transcript --url 'https://…' --timestamps
./scripts/vtd.js transcript --url 'https://…' --keep-brackets

Download video / audio / subtitles

./scripts/vtd.js download --url 'https://…' --output-dir ~/Downloads
./scripts/vtd.js audio --url 'https://…' --output-dir ~/Downloads
./scripts/vtd.js subs --url 'https://…' --output-dir ~/Downloads --lang en

Formats (list + choose)

List available formats (format ids, resolution, container, audio-only, etc):

./scripts/vtd.js formats --url 'https://…'

Download a specific format id (example):

./scripts/vtd.js download --url 'https://…' --output-dir ~/Downloads -- --format 137+140

Prefer MP4 container without re-encoding (remux when possible):

./scripts/vtd.js download --url 'https://…' --output-dir ~/Downloads -- --remux-video mp4

Notes

Default transcript output is a single paragraph. Use
```
--timestamps
```
only when asked.
Bracketed cues like
```
[Music]
```
are stripped by default; keep them via
```
--keep-brackets
```
.

Pass extra

yt-dlp

args after

--

for

transcript

fallback,

download

audio

subs

formats

./scripts/vtd.js formats --url 'https://…' -- -v

Troubleshooting (only when needed)

Missing
```
yt-dlp
```
/
```
ffmpeg
```
:

brew install yt-dlp ffmpeg

Verify:

yt-dlp --version
ffmpeg -version | head -n 1