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youtube-transcript from qa-aman/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add qa-aman/claude-skills/youtube-transcript@git:20260808.7dfb5c7

Pins git:20260808.7dfb5c7 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: qa-aman/claude-skills
Path: skills/shared/youtube-transcript/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 1
Latest version: git:20260808.7dfb5c7, committed Aug 8, 2026
Size: 2,188 bytes
Repository stars: 24
License: MIT

Fetch transcripts from YouTube videos. Use when user says "get transcript", "fetch transcript", "YouTube transcript", "pull captions", "what does this video say", or pastes a YouTube URL and wants the text content extracted. Also use when user wants to research or summarize a YouTube video.

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 Transcript Extractor

Fetch and return transcripts from YouTube videos using the bundled Python script.

## When to Activate

- User pastes a YouTube URL and wants the transcript
- User asks to "get the transcript" or "fetch captions" for a video
- User wants to research, summarize, or extract learnings from a YouTube video
- User provides multiple YouTube URLs for batch transcript extraction

## How It Works

### Step 1: Extract the transcript

Run the script with the video URL or ID:

```bash
uv run .claude/skills/youtube-transcript/scripts/get_transcript.py "VIDEO_URL_OR_ID"
```

For timestamped output:

```bash
uv run .claude/skills/youtube-transcript/scripts/get_transcript.py "VIDEO_URL_OR_ID" --timestamps
```

### Step 2: Handle the output

**Supported URL formats:**
- `https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID`
- `https://youtu.be/VIDEO_ID`
- `https://www.youtube.com/embed/VIDEO_ID`
- Raw 11-character video ID

**Output rules:**
- Never modify the returned transcript text. Present it exactly as returned.
- When timestamps are not used, arrange the raw text into coherent paragraphs by topic for readability.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add qa-aman/claude-skills/youtube-transcript@sha256:b52350abe6274eba

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260808.7dfb5c7, 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.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_6pmyvlkzqhmrn4bq.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_6pmyvlkzqhmrn4bq)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 8, 2026.

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git:20260808.7dfb5c7 latest	2026-08-08	7dfb5c7	2,188 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2188 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 link to a raw IP address
pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

qa-aman/claude-skills · 24 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6pmyvlkzqhmrn4bq
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=qa-aman/claude-skills/youtube-transcript
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b52350abe6274ebaeef7743492b2503c76f71b94c22c7e93cf821065124b2e2a

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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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