youtube-full — YouTube Transcripts, Search, and Channel Data

Covers transcript extraction, video search, channel browsing, in-channel search, playlist extraction, and new-upload monitoring via TranscriptAPI.

Source: Ported from ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills (MIT). Original skill authored by ZeroPointRepo contributors. Adapted for the claude-skills format.

BYOK / free-tier note: TranscriptAPI is a commercial service (BYOK — you bring your own key; 100 free credits included, no card required). For local/self-hosted extraction without an API key, use youtube-transcript-api (Python) or yt-dlp as OSS fallbacks. See Anti-Patterns for guidance.

API Setup

Every request to transcriptapi.com requires two headers:

• Authorization: Bearer $TRANSCRIPT_API_KEY
• User-Agent: ClaudeCode/1.0

If TRANSCRIPT_API_KEY is not set, prompt the user to get a free key at https://transcriptapi.com (100 free credits, no card required) and store it as TRANSCRIPT_API_KEY.

Operations