baoyu-youtube-transcript

baoyu-youtube-transcript is a skill for Codex from bestagentkits/agency-skills. It costs 107 tokens per session (2,333 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of baoyu-youtube-transcript, MIT.

A tool that downloads the spoken-text transcript, subtitles, and cover image from a YouTube video.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create transcripts with optional timestamps, chapters, speaker labels, language choices, or translations from a YouTube URL or video ID.
Why use it?
It saves the work of finding captions, copying them, and formatting them. It supports both creator-made and automatically generated subtitles.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents; built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it to create transcripts with optional timestamps, chapters, speaker labels, language choices, or translations from a YouTube URL or video ID.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bestagentkits/agency-skills/baoyu-youtube-transcript
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add bestagentkits/agency-skills --skill baoyu-youtube-transcript
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bestagentkits/agency-skills

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 107 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,333 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00107 $0.02333
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.01167
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00467
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00233

Measured 11d ago against content hash b7085574c6bf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

baoyu-youtube-transcript scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 7 executable files (scripts/main.test.ts, scripts/main.ts, scripts/shared.ts, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to baoyu-youtube-transcript — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/baoyu-skills/baoyu-youtube-transcript/SKILL.md · 187 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 187 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

YouTube Transcript

Downloads transcripts (subtitles/captions) from YouTube videos. Works with both manually created and auto-generated transcripts. No API key or browser required — uses YouTube's InnerTube API directly and automatically falls back to yt-dlp when YouTube blocks the direct API path.

Fetches video metadata and cover image on first run, caches raw data for fast re-formatting.

Script Directory

Scripts in scripts/ subdirectory. {baseDir} = this SKILL.md's directory path. Resolve ${BUN_X} runtime: if bun installed → bun; if npx available → npx -y bun; else suggest installing bun. Replace {baseDir} and ${BUN_X} with actual values.

Script Purpose
scripts/main.ts Transcript download CLI

Usage

# Default: markdown with timestamps (English)
${BUN_X} {baseDir}/scripts/main.ts <youtube-url-or-id>

# Specify languages (priority order)
${BUN_X} {baseDir}/scripts/main.ts <url> --languages zh,en,ja

# Without timestamps
${BUN_X} {baseDir}/scripts/main.ts <url> --no-timestamps

# With chapter segmentation
${BUN_X} {baseDir}/scripts/main.ts <url> --chapters

# With speaker identification (requires AI post-processing)
${BUN_X} {baseDir}/scripts/main.ts <url> --speakers

# SRT subtitle file
${BUN_X} {baseDir}/scripts/main.ts <url> --format srt

# Translate transcript
${BUN_X} {baseDir}/scripts/main.ts <url> --translate zh-Hans

# List available transcripts
${BUN_X} {baseDir}/scripts/main.ts <url> --list

# Force re-fetch (ignore cache)
${BUN_X} {baseDir}/scripts/main.ts <url> --refresh

Options

Option Description Default
<url-or-id> YouTube URL or video ID (multiple allowed) Required
--languages <codes> Language codes, comma-separated, in priority order en
--format <fmt> Output format: text, srt text
--translate <code> Translate to specified language code
--list List available transcripts instead of fetching
--timestamps Include [HH:MM:SS → HH:MM:SS] timestamps per paragraph on
--no-timestamps Disable timestamps
--chapters Chapter segmentation from video description
--speakers Raw transcript with metadata for speaker identification
--exclude-generated Skip auto-generated transcripts
--exclude-manually-created Skip manually created transcripts
--refresh Force re-fetch, ignore cached data
-o, --output <path> Save to specific file path auto-generated
--output-dir <dir> Base output directory youtube-transcript

Read the full file on GitHub · 187 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 187 lines · 107 tokens per session scan A b7085574c6bf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

baoyu-youtube-transcript is a skill published in the GitHub repository bestagentkits/agency-skills (11 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 107 tokens to every session and 2,333 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to baoyu-youtube-transcript, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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