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video-transcript-downloader

Skill2 starsChanged 55 days agoMITView on GitHub

yt-dlp downloads: video, audio, subtitles, transcripts, clips, playlists.

Installs packages

9 other projects use a version of this, 6 of them edited.

Adopted by

Most recently taken up by

steipete/agent-scriptsedited, first seen Oct 20, 2026
Gopyr/gopyr-skills-hubtheir own version, first seen Oct 11, 2026
mppyxx/claude-power-packedited, first seen Oct 8, 2026
devskale/skale-skillstheir own version, first seen Oct 2, 2026
jscraik/Agent-Skillstheir own version, first seen Sep 27, 2026
ZeroTokenClaw/agents-skillsedited, first seen Sep 21, 2026

Other versions9 projects use a version of this.
Word for word · 0
None found.
Edited · 6
anbeime/skill★ 7.9k75% same
steipete/agent-scripts★ 7.4k79% same
dycnnnb/skills★ 265% same
xdrshjr/JR-OpenClaw-Skills★ 165% same
ZeroTokenClaw/agents-skills★ 175% same
mppyxx/claude-power-pack★ 081% same
Wrote their own version · 3
jscraik/Agent-Skills★ 9same name
devskale/skale-skills★ 2same name
Gopyr/gopyr-skills-hub★ 0same name
How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
In this repository7 other files it gives its agents.
- CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
- ai-tellsSkill
- create-cliSkill
- github-deep-reviewSkill
- markdown-converterSkill
- one-passwordSkill
- remindersSkill

The file

We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent

2 rules. 1 is common, 0 are distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.

1
Common
Most of the 8 edited versions we read keep these.
0
Distinctive
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
1
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.

Common
Distinctive
Very specific

Common:
Prefer MP4 container without re-encoding (remux when possible):
line 62
Very specific:
Default transcript output is a single paragraph.
line 70

“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 8 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.

Keep what fits and drop the rest. Your version, ready for your agents.

Files

SKILL.md

Video Transcript Downloader

~/.claude/skills/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 ~/.claude/skills/video-transcript-downloader && npm ci

CLI syntax:

~/.claude/skills/video-transcript-downloader/scripts/vtd.js --help
~/.claude/skills/video-transcript-downloader/scripts/vtd.js transcript --help

Subcommands support focused help without requiring --url.

Transcript (default: clean paragraph)

~/.claude/skills/video-transcript-downloader/scripts/vtd.js transcript --url 'https://…'
~/.claude/skills/video-transcript-downloader/scripts/vtd.js transcript --url 'https://…' --lang en
~/.claude/skills/video-transcript-downloader/scripts/vtd.js transcript --url 'https://…' --timestamps
~/.claude/skills/video-transcript-downloader/scripts/vtd.js transcript --url 'https://…' --keep-brackets

Download video / audio / subtitles

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

Formats (list + choose)

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

~/.claude/skills/video-transcript-downloader/scripts/vtd.js formats --url 'https://…'

Download a specific format id (example):

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

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

~/.claude/skills/video-transcript-downloader/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.

~/.claude/skills/video-transcript-downloader/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

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