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by Zero Point Studiozeropointrepo/youtube-skills987 stars
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Use when video content needs to be extracted as text: pasted YouTube links or IDs, requests to transcribe, summarize, quote, translate, convert video to text, or extract information from video content. Also use when a user shares a video URL without explanation and wants to know what it says. Not for uploads or account management.

Ask your Agent

Use this Skill: https://skilld.dev/gh/zeropointrepo/youtube-skills/video-transcript

This session only. Nothing lands on disk.

SKILL.md

≈88 tokens always: the name and description. ≈852 when used: this file. ≈1.9k more on demand in 2 files.

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

GET https://transcriptapi.com/api/v2/youtube/transcript?video_url=VIDEO_URL&format=text&include_timestamp=true&send_metadata=true
Authorization: Bearer $TRANSCRIPT_API_KEY
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"
  }
}

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 }
  ]
}

Tips

  • Summarize long transcripts into key points first, offer full text on request.
  • Use format=json when you need precise timestamps for quoting specific moments.
  • Use send_metadata=true to get video title and channel for context.
  • Works with YouTube Shorts too.

Errors

Code Meaning Action
401 Bad API key Check key or re-setup
402 No credits Top up at transcriptapi.com/billing
403/1010 Cloudflare block Add or fix User-Agent header
404 No transcript Video may not have captions enabled
408 Timeout Retry once after 2s

1 credit per successful request. Errors don't consume credits. Free tier: 100 credits, 300 req/min.

Copy-paste examples

Every request in this file as a ready-to-run one-liner: references/curl-examples.md

Source: SKILL.md on GitHub

Third-party checks

1 alert9d5 checks · Risk MEDIUM
  • Gen Agent Trust Hub9d

    The skill provides a way to transcribe YouTube videos but includes instructions that direct the agent to bypass platform security filters and establish persistence by modifying shell configuration files.

  • Socket9d

    1 alert: gptMalware

  • Snyk9d

    Risk: MEDIUM · 2 issues

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    2/2 files flagged

  • ZeroLeaks5mo

    Score: 93/100 · 2 sections analyzed

Provenance

Signed by skilld at 44ce45d. This ties the file your Agent reads to that commit on GitHub. It does not review the instructions.

Last checked against GitHub last week.

Activeupdated 2 weeks ago

Capability

version
1.5.1
user-invocable
true
Other metadata
compatibility
Requires internet access to reach transcriptapi.com. No additional runtimes or dependencies needed.
required_environment_variables
[
  {
    "name": "TRANSCRIPT_API_KEY",
    "prompt": "Your TranscriptAPI key (starts with sk_)",
    "help": "Free account at https://transcriptapi.com — 100 credits, no card required. Or let the agent create one for you.",
    "required_for": "all API requests"
  }
]
metadata
{
  "openclaw": {
    "emoji": "▶️",
    "requires": {
      "env": [
        "TRANSCRIPT_API_KEY"
      ]
    },
    "primaryEnv": "TRANSCRIPT_API_KEY",
    "homepage": "https://transcriptapi.com"
  },
  "hermes": {
    "tags": [
      "youtube",
      "transcripts",
      "video",
      "captions",
      "text-extraction",
      "summarization"
    ],
    "category": "media"
  }
}

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