video-transcript

video-transcript is a skill for Claude Code from ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills. It costs 71 tokens per session (1,117 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that turns video speech into readable text, with optional timestamps and video metadata.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to transcribe, summarize, quote, translate, or extract information from YouTube videos and video IDs.
Why use it?
It saves the coding agent from relying only on the video's audio or visuals when answering questions about its content.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Good fit Use it to transcribe, summarize, quote, translate, or extract information from YouTube videos and video IDs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zeropointrepo/youtube-skills/video-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 video-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.

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README.md
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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.

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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 1,117 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 2 May 2026
  • Snyk warn 2 May 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 $0.01117
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00558
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00223
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00112

Measured 11d ago against content hash 75e1c77817f7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

video-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 11d 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/video-transcript/SKILL.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Video Transcript

Extract transcripts from videos 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 (structured), text (readable)
include_timestamp no true true, false
send_metadata no false true, false

Accepted URL formats:

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID
  • https://youtu.be/VIDEO_ID
  • https://youtube.com/shorts/VIDEO_ID
  • Bare video ID: dQw4w9WgXcQ

Response (format=text&send_metadata=true):

{
  "video_id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "language": "en",
  "transcript": "[00:00:18] We're no strangers to love\n[00:00:21] You know the rules...",
  "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 · 100 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. 11d ago First seen · 100 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 75e1c77817f7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

video-transcript is a skill published in the GitHub repository ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills (839 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 1,117 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.