subtitles

subtitles is a skill for Claude Code from ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills. It costs 71 tokens per session (1,060 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for retrieving the spoken text of YouTube videos as subtitles, with optional timestamps and video details. It can provide the transcript as plain text or structured data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to fetch subtitles from a YouTube link or video ID, translate them, study a language, or extract what was said.
Why use it?
It makes a video’s spoken content available for reading, translation, searching, or accessibility without listening to the entire video.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: built for openclaw.

not rated 846repo +61 3d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: warnSkillSpector: pass 71 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to fetch subtitles from a YouTube link or video ID, translate them, study a language, or extract what was said.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zeropointrepo/youtube-skills/subtitles
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 ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills --skill subtitles
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills

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.

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README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zeropointrepo/youtube-skills/subtitles/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/zeropointrepo/youtube-skills/subtitles)
Your own site
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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 subtitles

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,060 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 28 Apr 2026
  • Snyk warn 28 Apr 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00071 $0.01060
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00530
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00212
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00106

Measured 12d ago against content hash 64db27776709, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

subtitles scanned grade A 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 12d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s "https://transcriptapi.com/api/v2/youtube/transcript\
clawhub/subtitles/SKILL.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Subtitles

Fetch YouTube video subtitles via TranscriptAPI.com.

Setup

If $TRANSCRIPT_API_KEY is not set, read references/auth-setup.md and follow the instructions there to get and store the key.

Required Headers

Every request needs two headers:

  • Authorization: Bearer $TRANSCRIPT_API_KEY
  • User-Agent: your agent's name and version if known (e.g. HermesAgent/0.11.0, ClaudeCode/1.0). Version is optional — agent name alone is fine. Do not omit this header or send a bare default — Cloudflare will return a 403 (error code 1010) and block the request.

GET /api/v2/youtube/transcript

curl -s "https://transcriptapi.com/api/v2/youtube/transcript\
?video_url=VIDEO_URL&format=text&include_timestamp=false&send_metadata=true" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TRANSCRIPT_API_KEY" \
  -H "User-Agent: YourAgent/1.0"
Param Values Use case
video_url YouTube URL or video ID Required
format json, text json for sync'd subs with timing
include_timestamp true, false false for clean text for reading/translation
send_metadata true, false Include title, channel, description

For language learning — clean text without timestamps:

curl -s "https://transcriptapi.com/api/v2/youtube/transcript\
?video_url=VIDEO_ID&format=text&include_timestamp=false" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TRANSCRIPT_API_KEY" \
  -H "User-Agent: YourAgent/1.0"

For translation — structured segments:

curl -s "https://transcriptapi.com/api/v2/youtube/transcript\
?video_url=VIDEO_ID&format=json&include_timestamp=true" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TRANSCRIPT_API_KEY" \
  -H "User-Agent: YourAgent/1.0"

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 12d ago First seen · 103 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 64db27776709

Subscribe to this mod's changes

subtitles is a skill published in the GitHub repository ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills (846 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 1,060 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.