youtube-transcript

youtube-transcript is a skill for Claude Code from oalanicolas/ia. It costs 48 tokens per session (3,322 once invoked), scanned B, original, no licence file.

A skill for downloading the spoken text or captions from a YouTube video.

In plain words
What is it for?
Fetching transcripts, subtitles, or captions from a YouTube URL.
Why use it?
It provides a text version of a video when reading or processing the content is more useful than watching it.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Fetching transcripts, subtitles, or captions from a YouTube URL.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/oalanicolas/ia/youtube-transcript-downloader
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 oalanicolas/ia --skill youtube-transcript-downloader
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oalanicolas/ia

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for youtube-transcript

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/oalanicolas/ia/youtube-transcript-downloader/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/oalanicolas/ia/youtube-transcript-downloader)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/oalanicolas/ia/youtube-transcript-downloader"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/oalanicolas/ia/youtube-transcript-downloader/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for youtube-transcript

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/oalanicolas/ia/youtube-transcript-downloader"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/oalanicolas/ia/youtube-transcript-downloader.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,322 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00048 $0.03322
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01661
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00664
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00332

Measured 9d ago against content hash 42f1fdbf0de1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

youtube-transcript scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y yt-dlp
Claude Code/skills/youtube-transcript-downloader/SKILL.md · 419 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 419 lines · 48 tokens per session scan B 42f1fdbf0de1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

youtube-transcript is a skill published in the GitHub repository oalanicolas/ia (59 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 3,322 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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