Skills youtube-transcript-pipeline-lite

Name: youtube-transcript-pipeline-lite
Author: openclaw

Run a lightweight YouTube transcript workflow: transcribe, attribution cleanup, translation, and packaging with minimal tooling. Use for repeatable transcript handoff tasks when you need a concise, auditable process over custom automation.

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/openclaw/skills

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

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/openclaw/skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/bluebirdback/youtube-transcript-pipeline-lite" ~/.claude/skills/openclaw-skills-youtube-transcript-pipeline-lite && rm -rf "$T"

OpenClaw · Install into ~/.openclaw/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/openclaw/skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.openclaw/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/bluebirdback/youtube-transcript-pipeline-lite" ~/.openclaw/skills/openclaw-skills-youtube-transcript-pipeline-lite && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: skills/bluebirdback/youtube-transcript-pipeline-lite/SKILL.md

YouTube Transcript Pipeline (Lite)

Quick Start

Use this when a user asks for:

YouTube transcript generation and cleanup
speaker correction around interview/interjector vs main speaker
translated transcript output while preserving timestamps/speakers
ready-to-share folder packaging

Minimal Workflow

Transcribe
- Run your existing transcript flow for the target video (word-level preferred for reliable speaker calibration).
- Keep all raw outputs.
Speaker cleanup (small-impact)
- Preserve the default/primary speaker mapping.
- Only flip clearly short-interjection/question lines when they are obviously misattributed.
- Keep line count and timestamps unchanged.
Translate (optional)
- Translate content line-by-line.
- Keep format exactly:
```
[HH:MM:SS] Speaker: text
```
  .
- Keep technical terms unless explicitly asked to simplify.
Package for handoff
- Create concise structure:
```
transcripts/
```
  ,
```
artifacts/
```
  ,
```
MANIFEST.txt
```
  .
- Include one reviewed transcript + one translated version when asked.

What not to do in this skill

Do not introduce heavy automation assumptions.
Do not change line/timestamp structure unless user explicitly asks.
Do not aggressively relabel all speaker turns; prefer conservative flips.

Quality checks

Validate final line counts against source.
Confirm active final files are present and clearly named.
Keep every major handoff stage discoverable in manifest.

Reference

See

references/limits.md

for quick trade-offs and rollback guidance.