youtube-transcript
youtube-transcript is an agent skill published by browser-act, listed under research. It lives in the browser-act/skills repository, which has 6,277 GitHub stars and is licensed under MIT; we last read it on 2026-09-16.
Extracts and reformats YouTube video transcripts into summaries, chapter outlines, Twitter threads, blog posts, or notable quotes from a given video URL.
Install
skills is a generic installer for any repository of Claude agent skills -- it reads browser-act/skills’s own structure rather than assuming one, the same way this page reads the skill’s own SKILL.md rather than assuming a format.
npx skills add browser-act/skills
Maintenance
YouTube transcript extraction and content reformatting: given a YouTube video URL, opens the video's transcript panel, extracts all timestamped segments, and transforms the raw transcript into summaries, chapter outlines, Twitter/X threads, blog posts, or notable quotes. Use when the user shares a YouTube URL or video link, asks to summarize a video, get a transcript, extract content from a YouTube video, get YouTube captions, extract YouTube captions, download YouTube captions, transcribe YouTube video, YouTube video to text, make a thread from YouTube, YouTube to blog post, YouTube to article, pull transcript from YouTube, YouTube content extraction, convert YouTube to text, video to transcript. Also applies when user wants to reformat any YouTube video content into structured output (chapters, threads, blog articles, key quotes).
youtube-transcript compared with similar skills
| Skill | Publisher | What it does | Repo stars | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| youtube-transcript (this page) | browser-act | YouTube transcript extraction and content reformatting: given a YouTube video URL, opens the video's transcri… | 6,277 | 2026-08-24 |
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Common questions about youtube-transcript
- What does youtube-transcript do?
- Extracts and reformats YouTube video transcripts into summaries, chapter outlines, Twitter threads, blog posts, or notable quotes from a given video URL.
- How do I install youtube-transcript?
- Run npx skills add browser-act/skills. The skills installer reads the repository’s own structure, so it works for any repository of agent skills.
- Who publishes youtube-transcript?
- browser-act.
- Is youtube-transcript maintained, and what licence does it use?
- Its repository has 6,277 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is listed. Its last commit we recorded was on 2026-08-24. The repository declares the MIT licence.
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