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YouTube Transcript & Cover Grabber

Pull YouTube transcripts (multi-language, translated, SRT), chapters, speaker labels and cover images from just a URL or video ID.

UtilitiesBeginner★ 24,749⑂ 2,764AI score 10/10Last updated: Jul 4, 2026

What it does

  • Takes a YouTube URL or video ID and downloads manual or auto-generated captions, saving a tidy markdown file or .srt subtitle file.
  • No API key or browser needed: it calls YouTube's InnerTube API and automatically falls back to yt-dlp when blocked.
  • Also stores video metadata (title, channel, description, duration, chapters) plus the thumbnail at imgs/cover.jpg.
  • Supports --languages priority lists, --translate, --chapters (TOC segmentation) and --speakers (AI-assisted speaker labeling).
  • Caches raw snippets and sentence-split data, so re-formatting the same video is instant and offline.

Who it's for

  • Writers and researchers turning talks, interviews or podcasts into readable text.
  • Anyone who wants foreign-language videos translated into their own language.
  • Video editors who need clean SRT subtitle files.
  • Content teams grabbing thumbnails and metadata in one shot.

Examples

  1. "Get the transcript for https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ" → markdown transcript with [HH:MM:SS → HH:MM:SS] timestamps.
  2. "Translate this talk's captions to Simplified Chinese" → runs with --translate zh-Hans and saves the translated file.
  3. "Split this interview by speaker" → --chapters --speakers produces a chaptered transcript with **Speaker Name:** labels.

· · · Install guide · · ·

Try it now, no install

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What I want: (describe your task here)

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↓ If it works for you, download the ZIP below and install it. Then it runs on its own — no pasting each time.

Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
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Install in Claude Code

Let Claude do it — paste this into Claude Code

Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart.
Copy the skills/baoyu-youtube-transcript folder from the GitHub repo JimLiu/baoyu-skills into my ~/.claude/skills/baoyu-youtube-transcript/.
When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.

Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/JimLiu/baoyu-skills.git /tmp/baoyu-skills && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/baoyu-skills/skills/baoyu-youtube-transcript ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal.
  2. Install Bun if you don't have it: curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash (or rely on Node.js, since the skill can run via npx -y bun).
  3. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/JimLiu/baoyu-skills.git /tmp/baoyu-skills
  4. Copy the skill folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/baoyu-skills/skills/baoyu-youtube-transcript ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Optional but recommended: install yt-dlp as a fallback with brew install yt-dlp or pip install -U yt-dlp.
  6. Restart Claude Code and ask for a transcript with a YouTube link. On zsh, wrap the URL in single quotes so ? isn't treated as a glob.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT