YouTube Extractor

Overview

Use this skill to extract transcripts (with timestamps), titles, descriptions, and thumbnails from YouTube videos. Outputs are saved under a local project directory (default: ./.youtube-artifacts/<video-id>).

Quick Start

1. Create a local venv and install deps:

   uv venv
   uv add --dev yt-dlp typer
   

2. Extract all metadata and transcript:

   uv run python scripts/youtube_tools.py extract "https://youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"
   

3. Get just the transcript:

   uv run python scripts/youtube_tools.py transcript "https://youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"