youtube-transcribe-skill

youtube-transcribe-skill is a skill for Codex from feiskyer/codex-settings. It costs 58 tokens per session (659 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for extracting subtitles or transcripts from YouTube videos and saving them as timestamped text files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you have a YouTube link and need captions or a transcript, with language selection and support for common YouTube URL formats.
Why use it?
It removes the need to copy captions manually and converts subtitle cues into a more usable text format.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it when you have a YouTube link and need captions or a transcript, with language selection and support for common YouTube URL formats.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/feiskyer/codex-settings/youtube-transcribe-skill
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 feiskyer/codex-settings --skill youtube-transcribe-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/feiskyer/codex-settings

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 659 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high YARA Match · line 55
    YARA rule matched a known malware signature (reverse shell, backdoor, ransomware, C2 framework, or info stealer).
    Fix: Remove the malware payload or compromised file entirely. Investigate how it entered the skill and audit all other artifacts for additional indicators of compromise.
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found 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 $0.00058 $0.00659
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00329
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00132
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00066

Measured 9d ago against content hash 1851655e2427, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

youtube-transcribe-skill 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/transcribe_youtube.py, tests/test_transcribe_youtube.py), 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.

skills/youtube-transcribe-skill/SKILL.md · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

YouTube Transcript Extraction

Use the bundled scripts/transcribe_youtube.py wrapper for the primary workflow. It downloads subtitles with yt-dlp, selects the preferred language, converts WebVTT cues into timestamped plain text, and reports the output path and line count.

Requirements

  1. Install yt-dlp and confirm yt-dlp --version succeeds.
  2. Resolve the absolute directory containing this SKILL.md; refer to it as <skill-dir>.
  3. Keep the output in the user's current working directory unless they request another location.

The Python wrapper itself uses only the standard library. It can display --help without yt-dlp being installed.

Primary workflow

Run without browser cookies first:

python3 "<skill-dir>/scripts/transcribe_youtube.py" \
  "<youtube-url>" \
  --output-dir "$PWD"

The default language preference is Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, other Chinese variants, then English. Override it when the user requests another language:

python3 "<skill-dir>/scripts/transcribe_youtube.py" \
  "<youtube-url>" \
  --languages "ja.*,en.*" \
  --output-dir "$PWD"

The wrapper supports normal watch URLs plus youtu.be, Shorts, live, and embed URLs. A successful run writes one .txt file whose non-empty lines use this shape:

00:03 Subtitle text
00:08 Next subtitle text

Do not read browser cookies by default. If the initial command fails specifically because the video requires sign-in, age verification, membership, or another authenticated session:

  1. Explain that the retry will let yt-dlp read YouTube cookies from a local browser profile.
  2. Ask the user which browser profile they approve using.
  3. Retry only after approval:
python3 "<skill-dir>/scripts/transcribe_youtube.py" \
  "<youtube-url>" \
  --cookies-from-browser chrome \
  --output-dir "$PWD"

Never print, copy, or persist browser cookies in the transcript or logs.

Browser fallback

Use browser automation only when yt-dlp is unavailable or cannot obtain subtitles and an appropriate browser-control capability is available.

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 9d ago First seen · 80 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 1851655e2427

Subscribe to this mod's changes

youtube-transcribe-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository feiskyer/codex-settings (236 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 659 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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