youtube-transcript-extractor-api-skill
youtube-transcript-extractor-api-skill is an agent skill published by browser-act, listed under deploy & operate. 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.
This skill automatically extracts YouTube video transcripts and metadata using the BrowserAct API. It requires no specific credentials.
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
This skill helps users automatically extract YouTube video transcripts and metadata via the BrowserAct API. The Agent should proactively apply this skill when users express needs like extracting full transcript from a specific YouTube video, getting subtitles and metadata for video content analysis, gathering video titles and likes counts, summarizing YouTube videos without watching them, collecting channel details from a video URL, tracking transcript automation for specific videos, scraping YouTube subtitles for internal knowledge bases, fetching full video content for AI summarization pipelines, downloading structured transcripts from YouTube links, analyzing video text content for media research, monitoring video publisher information and channel links, or building datasets from YouTube video transcripts.
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Common questions about youtube-transcript-extractor-api-skill
- What does youtube-transcript-extractor-api-skill do?
- This skill automatically extracts YouTube video transcripts and metadata using the BrowserAct API. It requires no specific credentials.
- How do I install youtube-transcript-extractor-api-skill?
- 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-extractor-api-skill?
- browser-act.
- Is youtube-transcript-extractor-api-skill 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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