YouTube Transcript Downloader
Download YouTube transcripts and cover images — no API key, unofficial InnerTube API, yt-dlp fallback
- What
- Download YouTube transcripts and cover images — no API key, unofficial InnerTube API, yt-dlp fallback
- Cost
- Free
- Needs
- bun (or npx -y bun); YouTube access; note this uses YouTube's unofficial InnerTube API (ToS gray area) with a yt-dlp fallback
- Install
- Copy the installer prompt below into your Muse — your agent does the rest.
Curated by Skill Harbor — downloads transcripts (manual or auto-generated) and cover images from YouTube by URL or video ID, with no API key and no browser. It calls YouTube's unofficial InnerTube API directly and automatically falls back to `yt-dlp` when YouTube blocks the direct path. Supports multiple languages with priority order, translation, chapter segmentation, speaker identification metadata, timestamps, SRT output, markdown output with frontmatter, and caching of raw data for fast re-formatting (plus `--refresh` to force re-fetch). Transparent labeling: InnerTube is an UNOFFICIAL API — a YouTube ToS gray area that can break or be blocked at any time; the yt-dlp fallback is the honest second path, not a guarantee. Requires bun (or npx -y bun). Distinct from the other baoyu-* skills (diagrams, translation, infographics) — this one is YouTube-only. By @jimliu, listed here with credit to its creator. Skill Harbor never reviews the code, review it yourself before use.
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Install
Prerequisites: bun (or npx -y bun); YouTube access; note this uses YouTube's unofficial InnerTube API (ToS gray area) with a yt-dlp fallback Install "YouTube Transcript Downloader" for me. Download YouTube transcripts and cover images — no API key, unofficial InnerTube API, yt-dlp fallback Repository: https://github.com/jimliu/baoyu-skills/blob/main/skills/baoyu-youtube-transcript/SKILL.md 1. Fetch the SKILL.md file for the jimliu-baoyu-youtube-transcript skill from the repository into a temporary folder and summarize what it does in one or two sentences. 2. Safety check: review the SKILL.md and scripts for anything suspicious (unexpected network calls, shell commands, credential harvesting). This repo should contain zero secrets in code, credentials only via the secure vault, allowed hosts declared in the SKILL.md. Verify that holds here; STOP on any red flag and tell me. 3. Install it as a skill: copy SKILL.md and its helper files into the agent's skills directory, in a folder named "jimliu-baoyu-youtube-transcript". 4. Verify with no network calls: frontmatter valid, files in place. 5. Report what was installed, where, and what I still need to do myself (e.g. any accounts, API keys, or CLI tools mentioned in the prerequisites above). GitHub is optional: if I have a GitHub account or the gh CLI, you may use it; otherwise public access is fine. Never require it unless it's in the prerequisites above. Rules: don't touch anything outside the temp folder and the install target. Never ask me to paste secrets in chat — credentials go through the secure vault or environment variables. If anything looks off, stop and ask me.
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