Baoyu YouTube Transcript

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Extract YouTube captions, timestamps, chapters and cover images into Markdown or SRT.

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About this Skill

Provide a YouTube URL or video ID to retrieve available manual or automatic subtitles, metadata and a cover image. Save timestamped Markdown or SRT; chapter formatting, translation and speaker identification are optional. Speaker identification requires agent post-processing.

Why we picked it

Uses public or available captions; no API key is needed, but access depends on YouTube and the video.

What it helps with

  • Prepare a timestamped transcript for research, notes or editing.
  • Export available subtitles to SRT and retrieve a video cover.

Before you use it

  • Requires Bun or npx and network access. It uses YouTube’s InnerTube API, with optional yt-dlp fallback.
  • The video must have accessible captions; automatic captions and translations need human review.

Supported agents

Claude CodeCodex CLI

Sources & references

Original sources are linked below. Practical starting points are editorial suggestions from SkillHey.