Youtube Transcript Skill for Claude

Extract YouTube video transcripts with metadata and save as Markdown to Obsidian vault. Use this skill when the user requests downloading YouTube transcripts, converting YouTube videos to text, or extracting video subtitles. Does not download video/audio files, only metadata and subtitles.

3k tokens

context cost

the whole folder, loaded on every use

files

ships runnable scripts

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

337

stars on the repo

on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/glebis/claude-skills --skill youtube-transcript

What comes with it

11 226 bytes besides the instruction

.claude-plugin/plugin.json

scripts/deduplicate_transcript.py

scripts/extract_transcript.py

The instruction itself

10 sections, as written by the author

YouTube Transcript

Overview

Extract YouTube video transcripts, metadata, and chapters using yt-dlp. Output formatted as Markdown with YAML frontmatter, saved to ~/Brains/brain/ (Obsidian vault).

Quick Start

To extract a transcript from a YouTube video:

python scripts/extract_transcript.py <youtube_url>

Optional: Specify custom output filename:

python scripts/extract_transcript.py <youtube_url> custom_filename.md

Output Format

YAML Frontmatter

The generated Markdown includes comprehensive metadata:

title - Video title
channel - Channel name
url - YouTube URL
upload_date - Upload date (YYYY-MM-DD)
duration - Video duration (HH:MM:SS)
description - Video description (truncated to 500 chars)
tags - Array of video tags
view_count - View count
like_count - Like count

Body Structure

Transcript organized by video chapters (if available):

## Chapter Title

**00:05:23** Transcript text for this segment.

**00:05:45** Next segment text.

If no chapters exist, all content appears under "## Transcript" heading.

Timestamps formatted as HH:MM:SS for consistency.

Workflow

Extract metadata and subtitles using yt-dlp
Parse VTT subtitle format to extract timestamps and text
Group transcript segments by video chapters (if present)
Format as Markdown with YAML frontmatter
Save to ~/Brains/brain/ with sanitized filename based on video title
Clean up temporary subtitle files

Deduplication

To remove duplicates from existing transcript files:

python scripts/deduplicate_transcript.py <markdown_file>

This removes transcript entries that are prefixes of subsequent entries (common in VTT files where subtitles accumulate).

Requirements

Ensure yt-dlp is installed:

pip install yt-dlp

Limitations

Extracts subtitles in English first, falls back to Russian if English unavailable
Requires video to have subtitles (auto-generated or manual)
Does not download video or audio files
Description truncated to 500 characters in frontmatter

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How to use it

Copy the folder

Take glebis/youtube-transcript from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.

Install what it needs

The instructions reference pip. Without those the skill loads but fails at the first command.