What you can do with YouTube Skills

4 use cases

• Summarize a YouTube video from its transcript

  Get the spoken text of one video and pull a summary or quotes from it.

  • YouTube Skills
  • Claude Code
  • Cursor
  • Codex
  • Research
  • Beginner
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  Using the youtube-skills repo, fetch the transcript of <video URL> with timestamps and write a five-bullet summary plus three quotes with their timestamps. Verify that each quote appears in the returned transcript text before you output it.

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• Bulk export a channel's transcripts for a search index

  Collect video IDs from a channel or playlist and export transcripts in retrieval-sized chunks.

  • YouTube Skills
  • Claude Code
  • Cursor
  • Codex
  • Research
  • Intermediate
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  Using the youtube-skills repo, list all video IDs for <channel or playlist>, then submit one bulk transcript job with segment=1000 and format=json. Report the job ID, the number of videos accepted and the credits charged, and confirm that each chunk has a start timestamp.

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• Find every mention of a topic inside one channel

  Search a single channel's videos for a keyword and get the matching videos.

  • YouTube Skills
  • Claude Code
  • Cursor
  • Codex
  • Research
  • Beginner
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  Using the youtube-skills repo, search inside the channel <channel handle> for the term <term> and list each matching video with its title and URL. Verify one match by opening its transcript and confirming the term appears.

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• Turn a playlist into study notes

  Read every video in a playlist and produce notes per lecture.

  • YouTube Skills
  • Claude Code
  • Cursor
  • Codex
  • Research
  • Beginner
  View prompt

  Using the youtube-skills repo, list every video in the playlist <playlist URL>, fetch each transcript, and write one set of study notes per video with timestamps. Verify that the number of notes equals the number of videos returned.

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How to use YouTube Skills

1. Check you have what it needs: An agent that reads the Agent Skills format, such as Claude Code, Cursor or Codex; A TranscriptOut API key starting with sk_, created on first run with an email code (free account, 100 credits); Node.js with npx for the npx install path.
2. Open artemchuikin/youtube-skills on GitHub and read the README and license.
3. Run npx skills add artemchuikin/youtube-skills --skill youtube-full
4. Ask the agent a question with the video link, for example: What does this video actually claim? [URL]
5. Follow the in-chat prompt to enter your email and the 6-digit code, so the agent creates your sk_ key
6. Ask for quotes or a summary and check that the quoted lines match the timestamps

These steps come from our top use case, Summarize a YouTube video from its transcript, which also has a copy-paste agent prompt.

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About this repo

• Who it is forResearchers, students, creators and developers who want an AI agent to work with YouTube transcripts without writing scripts or using yt-dlp.
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Requirements

• An agent that reads the Agent Skills format, such as Claude Code, Cursor or Codex
• A TranscriptOut API key starting with sk_, created on first run with an email code (free account, 100 credits)
• Node.js with npx for the npx install path

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