transcript

transcript is a skill for Claude Code from ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills. It costs 69 tokens per session (1,118 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for fetching the spoken text of YouTube videos, with options for timestamps, metadata, and plain-text or JSON output. A transcript is a written record of what is said in a video.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with a YouTube URL or video ID to retrieve the video’s transcript, optionally including timestamps and video metadata.
Why use it?
It removes the need to listen through a video manually when you need its spoken content for research, summaries, translations, quotes, or fact-checking.

Skill for Claude Code

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

not rated 812repo +191 6d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: warnSkillSpector: pass 69 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it with a YouTube URL or video ID to retrieve the video’s transcript, optionally including timestamps and video metadata.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zeropointrepo/youtube-skills/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 ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills --skill transcript
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.

agentmods badge for transcript

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zeropointrepo/youtube-skills/transcript.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/zeropointrepo/youtube-skills/transcript)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/zeropointrepo/youtube-skills/transcript"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zeropointrepo/youtube-skills/transcript.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,118 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 29 Apr 2026
  • Snyk warn 29 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 $0.00069 $0.01118
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00559
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00224
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00112

Measured 8d ago against content hash 942815adbde4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

transcript 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 8d 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/transcript/SKILL.md · 98 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Transcript

Fetch video transcripts 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=true&send_metadata=true" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TRANSCRIPT_API_KEY" \
  -H "User-Agent: YourAgent/1.0"
Param Required Default Values
video_url yes YouTube URL or 11-char video ID
format no json json, text
include_timestamp no true true, false
send_metadata no false true, false

Accepts: full URLs (youtube.com/watch?v=ID), short URLs (youtu.be/ID), shorts (youtube.com/shorts/ID), or bare video IDs.

Default: Always use format=text&include_timestamp=true&send_metadata=true unless user specifies otherwise.

Response (format=json):

{
  "video_id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "language": "en",
  "transcript": [
    { "text": "We're no strangers to love", "start": 18.0, "duration": 3.5 },
    { "text": "You know the rules and so do I", "start": 21.5, "duration": 2.8 }
  ],
  "metadata": {
    "title": "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up",
    "author_name": "Rick Astley",
    "author_url": "https://www.youtube.com/@RickAstley",
    "thumbnail_url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dQw4w9WgXcQ/maxresdefault.jpg"
  }
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 98 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. 8d ago First seen · 98 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 942815adbde4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

transcript is a skill published in the GitHub repository ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills (812 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 1,118 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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