youtube-transcriber SKILL.md skillB
youtube-transcriber from lifesized/youtube-transcriber is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add lifesized/youtube-transcriber/youtube-transcriber@git:20260318.d421b1cPins git:20260318.d421b1c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- B, 16 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- lifesized/youtube-transcriber
- Path
contrib/clawhub/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260318.d421b1c, committed Mar 18, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 18, 2026
- Size
- 6,236 bytes
- Repository stars
- 34
- License
- AGPL-3.0
Get clean, LLM-ready transcripts from any YouTube video. No timestamps, no clutter — just the text, ready to paste into any AI workflow. Falls back to local Whisper when captions aren't available.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# YouTube Transcriber Fetch clean, LLM-ready transcripts from any YouTube video. Uses official YouTube captions when available; falls back to local Whisper transcription when they're not. Output is plain text — no timestamps, no formatting noise — ready to drop straight into any AI prompt or workflow. ## When to Use Activate when the user wants to: - Transcribe a YouTube video - Get the full text of what was said in a video - Feed a video's content into an LLM (summarize, analyze, Q&A, translate, etc.) - Extract dialogue, quotes, or research material from a video - Use shorthand like `t`, `ts`, or `transcribe` followed by a YouTube URL ## Prerequisites ### Check if the service is running Before making any API calls, check if the service is available: ```bash curl -s http://127.0.0.1:19720/api/health | jq -r '.status' ``` - If this returns `"healthy"` — you're ready to go, skip to the API section. - If this returns `"unhealthy"` — check `.checks[]` for which component failed. - If this returns connection refused — the service needs to be set up and started (see below). ### System dependencies The service requires: - **Node.js 18+** and npm - **Python 3.8+** …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add lifesized/youtube-transcriber/youtube-transcriber@sha256:36327d649f24d882The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260318.d421b1c, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_66v4wyktfxidvn6c)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Mar 18, 2026.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260318.d421b1c latest | 2026-03-18 | d421b1c | 6,236 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260318.7f74c63 | 2026-03-18 | 7f74c63 | 4,536 B | B | view |
Audit of the latest version
- fail: No link to a raw IP address (matched: http://127.0.0.1:19720)
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (6236 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No script tag
Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.
Source
lifesized/youtube-transcriber · 34 stars · license AGPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_66v4wyktfxidvn6c GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=lifesized/youtube-transcriber/youtube-transcriber GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/36327d649f24d8827a640a33ca98d54746932f8bd18aee327befacb9178e503e
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Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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