video-transcript-downloader
yt-dlp downloads: video, audio, subtitles, transcripts, clips, playlists.
Install
With your agent
Install OMGSkills skill "steipete/agent-scripts:video-transcript-downloader" into this agent's normal skills directory: call the OMGSkills MCP get_install_plan tool for your agent and run the script it returns (it installs only the pinned commit and verifies SKILL.md), and stop if MCP or the pin is unavailable. Do not overwrite or change existing skills without asking me.
Manual command
git clone https://github.com/steipete/agent-scripts /tmp/agent-scripts && ln -s /tmp/agent-scripts/skills/video-transcript-downloader ~/.claude/skills/video-transcript-downloaderFrom README
Video Transcript Downloader ./scripts/vtd.js can: Print a transcript as a clean paragraph (timestamps optional). Download video/audio/subtitles. Transcript behavior: YouTube: fetch via youtube-transcript-plus when possible. Otherwise: pull subtitles via yt-dlp, then clean into a paragraph. CLI syntax: Subcommands support focused help without requiring --url. Transcript (default: clean paragraph) Download video / audio / subtitles Formats (list + choose) List available formats (format ids, resolution, container, audio-only, etc): Download a specific format id (example): Prefer MP4 container without re-encoding (remux when possible): Notes Default transcript output is a single paragraph. Use --timestamps only when asked. Bracketed cues like [Music] are stripped by default; keep them via --keep-brackets. Pass extra yt-dlp args after -- for transcript fallback, download, audio, subs, formats. Troubleshooting (only when needed) Missing yt-dlp / ffmpeg: Verify: