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TranscriptOut YouTube Data Toolkit

One API key for YouTube transcripts, search, channels, playlists and bulk transcript jobs.

Web & APIIntermediate★ 272⑂ 17AI score 9/10Last updated: Nov 5, 2026

What it does

  • Pulls transcripts for any YouTube URL, bare ID, short or Shorts link in five formats: text, json, srt, vtt, srv3.
  • Covers video metadata (title, channel, duration, views), YouTube search, a channel's latest uploads, its full video catalogue, in-channel relevance search, and playlist listing/search.
  • Runs asynchronous bulk transcript jobs for up to 4,000 videos with progress polling, partial results and cancellation.
  • Documents per-endpoint credit costs, refund rules and an action for every HTTP error code so the agent spends credits deliberately.
  • Includes a safety rule to treat fetched captions and titles as untrusted data and never follow instructions hidden inside them.

Who it's for

  • Researchers and content strategists who summarize, quote or translate talks, lectures and tutorials.
  • Marketers monitoring competitor channels and creator upload activity.
  • Developers feeding caption chunks into RAG/embedding pipelines via the segment parameter (500–1500 chars).

Example uses

  1. "Summarize this video" + link → one call with format=text&video_metadata=true returns transcript plus title for a single credit.
  2. "Grab every @3blue1brown video and cluster by topic" → list IDs with channel/videos?ids_only=true, then submit one bulk job.
  3. "Where does the speaker mention X?" → request format=json and cite exact start timestamps.

· · · Install guide · · ·

Try it now, no install

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Read the instructions in this file and follow them to help me:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artemchuikin/youtube-skills/HEAD/clawhub/transcriptout/SKILL.md

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

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

Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/artemchuikin/youtube-skills.git /tmp/youtube-skills && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/youtube-skills/clawhub/transcriptout ~/.claude/skills/

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

  1. Open a terminal and clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/artemchuikin/youtube-skills.git
  2. Copy the skill into Claude's skills folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r youtube-skills/clawhub/transcriptout ~/.claude/skills/
  3. Create a free account at https://transcriptout.com (100 credits on signup, no card required).
  4. Generate an API key in the dashboard — it should start with sk_.
  5. Add export TRANSCRIPTOUT_API_KEY="sk_..." to ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc, then run source ~/.zshrc.
  6. Restart Claude Code, paste a YouTube link and ask it to summarize the video to confirm everything works.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT