YouTube Transcript Downloader

关于

This skill enables Claude to efficiently extract text content from YouTube videos by leveraging yt-dlp for existing subtitles and OpenAI Whisper for cases where no captions are available. It streamlines the workflow of retrieving, deduplicating, and formatting transcripts into readable plain text, making it an essential tool for content analysis, summarization, and documentation tasks within the Claude Code environment.

主要功能

• Advanced text post-processing to remove VTT timestamp duplicates and formatting
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• Flexible output options including structured VTT and clean, readable plain text
• Automated detection and download of manual and auto-generated YouTube subtitles
• Intelligent fallback to Whisper AI transcription for videos lacking native captions
• Smart installation management for yt-dlp and Whisper dependencies across different OS environments

使用场景

• Transcribing long-form video content for technical documentation or meeting summaries
• Extracting dialogue from educational videos to create searchable study notes
• Gathering video text data for sentiment analysis or content research