AI Skills

Packaged instructions that teach Claude (or any AI tool that supports Agent Skills) how to call the YouTube Transcript API on your behalf - fetch a transcript, search YouTube, or pull a playlist, just by asking in plain English. You still need an API key from your dashboard (free tier included, no card required).

YouTube Transcript

Free

Fetch a video's transcript, search YouTube (globally or a channel), resolve a channel handle, or list a playlist's videos - all via the getyoutubetranscript.com API.

Triggers on

  • "Get the transcript for this YouTube video"
  • "Summarize this YouTube video" (fetches the transcript first)
  • "Search YouTube for ..."
  • "What videos are in this playlist?"
Download skill (.zip)

Install

Claude Code

Unzip into your skills folder, then restart Claude Code (or start a new session):

unzip youtube-transcript-skill.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

Claude.ai / Claude Desktop

Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, then select the downloaded.zipfile directly - no need to unzip it yourself.

Set your API key

The skill looks for your key in the YOUTUBE_TRANSCRIPT_API_KEY environment variable. Get a free key from your dashboard first, then:

export YOUTUBE_TRANSCRIPT_API_KEY="sk_live_..."

If it's not set, the skill will just ask you for a key in the conversation instead.