Video Transcript Downloader

# Video Transcript Downloader Download videos, audio, and clean paragraph-style transcripts from YouTube and any yt-dlp supported site. The Video Transcript Downloader is a powerful utility for extracting media and text from the web. It allows you to download high-quality video, audio, and subtitles from YouTube and thousands of other sites. Its primary strength is generating clean, paragraph-style transcripts that strip out timestamps and noise, making them perfect for reading, archiving, or processing with AI agents. ## How It Works The skill uses youtube-transcript-plus for optimized YouTube extraction and falls back to yt-dlp for other platforms. It processes raw subtitle data to remove bracketed cues like [Music] and merges fragmented lines into cohesive paragraphs. Users can also list available formats to choose specific resolutions or containers like MP4. ## Key Features - **Clean Transcripts**: Automatically converts messy subtitle files into readable, paragraph-style text. - **Flexible Downloads**: Extract full video, audio-only files, or standalone subtitle tracks. - **Format Control**: List all available quality options and select specific format IDs for download. - **Wide Compatibility**: Supports any website compatible with the yt-dlp engine. ## Requirements - **Local Utilities**: No external API keys are required. This skill relies on local system binaries to perform extraction and processing. ## Use Cases - **Content Summarization**: Quickly grab a clean transcript of a long video to summarize it with an LLM. - **Media Archiving**: Save high-quality clips or audio tracks from the web for offline use. - **Research**: Extract text from tutorials or lectures to create searchable study notes. ## Installation Install via: `npx clawhub@latest install video-transcript-downloader`

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