Apify Youtube Transcript API

Get YouTube transcripts as structured JSON with a hosted YouTube transcript API (the Apify Actor johnvc/YoutubeTranscripts). Pass one video URL or a batch array and get back non_timestamped text, timestamped snippets, language metadata, and optional SRT, VTT, and plain text formats, plus video title, channel, and view count. Works with standard videos and Shorts, handles language preference and translation, and runs from cloud IPs without IpBlocked errors. Use when the user wants a youtube transcript api, needs to get or download a YouTube transcript or subtitles, asks to extract the transcrip

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Install

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more)

npx skills add johnisanerd/claude-skill-youtube-transcript-api --skill apify-youtube-transcript-api

Manual install

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/johnisanerd/claude-skill-youtube-transcript-api.git /tmp/claude-skill-youtube-transcript-api
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/claude-skill-youtube-transcript-api/apify-youtube-transcript-api ~/.claude/skills/apify-youtube-transcript-api

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From the SKILL.md

# YouTube Transcript API: Captions to Structured JSON

Fetch the transcript of any YouTube video as clean JSON with a hosted YouTube transcript API. Pass a single URL or a batch array; each video comes back as one row with the full plain text, timestamped snippets, language details, and the video's title, channel, and view count.

## When to use this skill

- The user wants a YouTube transcript API, or asks to get, fetch, or download the transcript of a YouTube video.
- They want subtitles or captions as JSON, SRT, VTT, or plain text.
- They ask to extract the transcript from a YouTube video, a Short, or a list of URLs.
- Their own transcript library keeps failing with IpBlocked or RequestBlocked from a cloud or datacenter IP.

Not for: videos with no caption track at all (those return an error row, not a transcript), private or age-gated videos, or generating captions with speech-to-text (this API reads YouTube's published caption tracks; it does not run ASR).

## What you get (one row per video)

Read the full skill on GitHub

Details

Skill name: apify-youtube-transcript-api
Repository: johnisanerd/claude-skill-youtube-transcript-api
Path: apify-youtube-transcript-api/SKILL.md
Repo updated: 17 July 2026
Listed in: karanb192/awesome-claude-skills

FAQ

What does the Apify Youtube Transcript API skill do?

How do I install the Apify Youtube Transcript API skill?

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add johnisanerd/claude-skill-youtube-transcript-api --skill apify-youtube-transcript-api. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.

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