cyberneticlibrary

Search and transcribe YouTube videos at scale

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alirezarezvani/claude-skills
What it does

Extract and monitor YouTube transcripts and playlists

Best for

Rapidly ingesting spoken content (podcasts, tutorials, conference talks) with searchable timestamps and channel monitoring at scale.

Inputs
  • · YouTube video URL or channel name
  • · Playlist IDs for bulk extraction
  • · Search queries for in-channel content discovery
Outputs
  • · Transcript with timestamps
  • · Video metadata and channel info
  • · Playlist structure and new-upload notifications
Requires
  • · TranscriptAPI
  • · YouTube API (via wrapper)
Preconditions
  • · YouTube video/channel must be public
  • · TranscriptAPI credits available (100 free included)
Failure modes
  • · Videos with disabled transcripts cannot be extracted
  • · Transcripts may lack timestamps for auto-generated captions
  • · Rate limits on playlist monitoring if checking too frequently
Trust signals
  • · Ported from open-source ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills (MIT license)
  • · TranscriptAPI is production YouTube integration
  • · 100 free credits + BYOK support