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Capture YouTube transcripts without browser automation using YouTube Transcript API

Fetch manual or auto-generated YouTube subtitles, including translations, without Selenium or API keys before summarization, extraction, or quote-checking.

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npx skills add agentskillexchange/skills --skill capture-youtube-transcripts-without-browser-automation-using-youtube-transcript-api

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Tools required

Python, YouTube video ID

Install & setup

pip install youtube-transcript-api

Author

jdepoix

Publisher

Open Source Project

Use YouTube Transcript API when an agent needs the transcript or subtitles for a YouTube video before summarization, chaptering, extraction, or quote validation. The upstream project is explicit about the boundary: retrieve manual or generated subtitles, optionally translate them, and do it without a headless browser or API key.

Invoke this instead of normal YouTube browsing or a full downloader workflow when the transcript text is the real goal. The scope boundary is tight: transcript retrieval only. It is not a general YouTube automation stack, video downloader, or media platform listing.