video-transcript-downloader SKILL.md skillA
video-transcript-downloader from steipete/agent-scripts is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add steipete/agent-scripts/video-transcript-downloader@git:20260523.0a2d76cPins git:20260523.0a2d76c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- steipete/agent-scripts
- Path
skills/video-transcript-downloader/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260523.0a2d76c, committed May 23, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 8, 2026
- Size
- 2,254 bytes
- Repository stars
- 7,470
- License
- MIT
yt-dlp downloads: video, audio, subtitles, transcripts, clips, playlists.
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
# Video Transcript Downloader `./scripts/vtd.js` can: - Print a transcript as a clean paragraph (timestamps optional). - Download video/audio/subtitles. Transcript behavior: - YouTube: fetch via `youtube-transcript-plus` when possible. - Otherwise: pull subtitles via `yt-dlp`, then clean into a paragraph. ## Setup ```bash cd ~/Projects/agent-scripts/skills/video-transcript-downloader && npm ci ``` CLI syntax: ```bash ./scripts/vtd.js --help ./scripts/vtd.js transcript --help ``` Subcommands support focused help without requiring `--url`. ## Transcript (default: clean paragraph) ```bash ./scripts/vtd.js transcript --url 'https://…' ./scripts/vtd.js transcript --url 'https://…' --lang en ./scripts/vtd.js transcript --url 'https://…' --timestamps ./scripts/vtd.js transcript --url 'https://…' --keep-brackets ``` ## Download video / audio / subtitles ```bash ./scripts/vtd.js download --url 'https://…' --output-dir ~/Downloads ./scripts/vtd.js audio --url 'https://…' --output-dir ~/Downloads ./scripts/vtd.js subs --url 'https://…' --output-dir ~/Downloads --lang en ``` ## Formats (list + choose) List available formats (format ids, resolution, container, audio-only, etc): …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add steipete/agent-scripts/video-transcript-downloader@sha256:27153a8c523e72eaThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260523.0a2d76c, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between May 8, 2026 and May 23, 2026, about one every 4 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260523.0a2d76c latest | 2026-05-23 | 0a2d76c | 2,254 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260509.b87177a | 2026-05-09 | b87177a | 2,263 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260509.f498893 | 2026-05-09 | f498893 | 2,251 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260509.51ee7e5 | 2026-05-09 | 51ee7e5 | 2,117 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260508.3a56241 | 2026-05-08 | 3a56241 | 2,157 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2254 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
steipete/agent-scripts · 7,470 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_dirvmrrfhw4kzh6z GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=steipete/agent-scripts/video-transcript-downloader GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/27153a8c523e72ea75ca77ed4f4e4cb846a4c982291b1dd7a645f18a4883404f
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.
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