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Youtube Transcript skill

youtube-transcriptbrowser-act/skillssolutions/video-platforms/youtube-transcript/SKILL.md

YouTube transcript extraction and content reformatting: given a YouTube video URL, opens the video's transcript panel, extracts all timestamped segments, and transforms the raw transcript into summaries, chapter outlines, Twitter/X threads, blog posts, or notable quotes. Use when the user shares a YouTube URL or video link, asks to summarize a video, get a transcript, extract content from a YouTube video, get YouTube captions, extract YouTube captions, download YouTube captions, transcribe YouTube video, YouTube video to text, make a thread from YouTube, YouTube to blog post, YouTube to article, pull transcript from YouTube, YouTube content extraction, convert YouTube to text, video to transcript. Also applies when user wants to reformat any YouTube video content into structured output (chapters, threads, blog articles, key quotes).

6.2kMIT

always on

180 tokname + description

once used

1,725 tokSKILL.md body

bundled files

33 scripts

repo stars

6.2kGitHub

Install the Youtube Transcript skill

Skills CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others)

npx skills add https://github.com/browser-act/skills --skill youtube-transcript

Claude Code, by hand (all projects)

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/browser-act/skills.git /tmp/skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -R /tmp/skills/solutions/video-platforms/youtube-transcript ~/.claude/skills/youtube-transcript

For one project only, copy the folder into .claude/skills/ in that project instead. The agent picks it up when a task matches its description.

What it costs your context

Agent Skills load in three steps. Tokens counted with the o200k tokenizer; your model's count will differ a little.

WhenWhat loadsCost
Every sessionName and description180 tok
When the agent uses itThe SKILL.md instructions1,725 tok
Only if opened3 bundled files (4 KB)varies

Until it is used, youtube-transcript costs about 7.6× less than the median MCP server we measured (1,362 tokens on every turn). Installing all 103 skills from browser-act/skills would load 17,203 tokens of descriptions. Skills vs MCP study

Checks

  • Ships scripts the agent can run. Read them before installing.

Checked 2026-10-22 · method

What's inside

The headings of its SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub.

  • YouTube — Transcript Extraction & Content Reformatting
  • Language
  • Objective
  • Prerequisites
  • Pre-execution Checks
  • 1. Tool Readiness
  • Capability Components
  • DOM: Check transcript availability and list languages
  • DOM: Open transcript panel
  • DOM: Extract all transcript segments
  • Composite: Full transcript fetch workflow
  • Transform: Content Reformatting
  • Workflow
  • Example — Chapters Output
  • Example — Thread Output
  • Error Handling
  • Known Limitations
  • Execution Efficiency
  • Success Criteria
  • Experience Notes

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