Yt Digest

Turn a YouTube URL into a vault-ready research digest — transcript, key learning moments with timestamp deep-links, and screenshots of visual moments (slides, demos, dashboards). Use when the user pastes a YouTube link they're researching, says "summarize this video", "/yt-digest <url>", "youtube digest", or asks to extract key points from a YouTube talk. Output goes to vault/research/youtube/<slug>.md with screenshots in vault/attachments/youtube/<slug>/. Source MP4 is auto-deleted after frame extraction.

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Install

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

npx skills add tga-cheetung/yt-digest --skill yt-digest

Manual install

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tga-cheetung/yt-digest.git /tmp/yt-digest
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/yt-digest/. ~/.claude/skills/yt-digest

Personal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.

From the SKILL.md

# yt-digest

Process a YouTube video into a single markdown research note in your notes vault. Drop a link, get a digest that's faster to consume than the video.

## Output contract

- **Digest:** `vault/research/youtube/<slug>.md` — frontmatter + TL;DR + numbered takeaways (each with timestamp deep-link + screenshot if visual) + collapsed transcript
- **Screenshots:** `vault/attachments/youtube/<slug>/frame-MM-SS.png` — embedded in digest via Obsidian's `![[...]]` syntax
- **Staging:** `/tmp/yt-digest/<slug>/` — video + raw VTT, **deleted at end of run**

Headless-safe: all inputs come from CLI args, no interactive prompts, deterministic output path so an orchestrator can read the result back.

## Workflow

### 0. Parse args

Required: a YouTube URL (any form — `youtu.be/x`, `youtube.com/watch?v=x`, `youtube.com/shorts/x`).

Optional flags:
- `--no-screenshots` — skip video download + frame extraction (transcript-only, ~$0.01, ~5s)
- `--tags a,b,c` — add to frontmatter `tags:` list
- `--slug name` — override auto-generated slug

If no URL is provided, abort with a one-line error — do NOT prompt the user (this skill runs headless).

### 1. Fetch transcript + video

```bash
mkdir -p /tmp/yt-digest
META_JSON=$(.claude/skills/yt-digest/scripts/fetch.sh "$URL" "/tmp/yt-digest/staging-$$" ${NO_SCREENSHOTS:+--no-video})
```

Parse `META_JSON` (one-line JSON) for: `id`, `title`, `channel`, `duration_seconds`, `upload_date` (YYYYMMDD), `slug`, `transcript_path`, `video_path`.

Read the full skill on GitHub

Details

Skill name: yt-digest
Repository: tga-cheetung/yt-digest
License: MIT
Repo updated: 28 May 2026

FAQ

What does the Yt Digest skill do?

How do I install the Yt Digest skill?

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add tga-cheetung/yt-digest --skill yt-digest. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.

Is Yt Digest popular?

It lives in tga-cheetung/yt-digest, which has 8 GitHub stars and 2 forks.

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