baoyu-youtube-transcript

baoyu-youtube-transcript is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from guanyang/open-agent-hub. It costs 107 tokens per session (2,333 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of baoyu-youtube-transcript, MIT.

A tool for downloading the written text and cover image from a YouTube video using its URL or ID. A transcript is the video's spoken words as text; subtitles are timed text displayed during playback.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to get transcripts in selected languages, translate them, add timestamps or chapters, identify speakers, and download video metadata and the cover image.
Why use it?
It saves you from manually copying captions and can use either creator-made or automatically generated subtitles, with the original data cached for later formatting.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: mentions subagents; built for openclaw.

Part of the open-agent-hub plugin — 102 skills, 3 commands, 5 agents, 6 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to get transcripts in selected languages, translate them, add timestamps or chapters, identify speakers, and download video metadata and the cover image.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/guanyang/open-agent-hub/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 guanyang/open-agent-hub --skill baoyu-youtube-transcript
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/guanyang/open-agent-hub

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install open-agent-hub, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 102 skills, 3 commands, 5 agents, 6 MCP servers.

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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 2026-09-10, 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-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

8 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 guanyang/open-agent-hub (965 stars, last pushed today), 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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