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ResearchNeeds a little setup

Grab YouTube subtitles

Give it a YouTube link and it downloads the subtitles and thumbnail, and can split them into chapters.

Good for: People who learn from YouTube and want a written transcript

Before you start: Your computer needs to be able to reach YouTube.

Read this first: No API key needed. If YouTube blocks it, it switches to yt-dlp.

What you can do once it's installed

Just say the “You say to AI” line, with your own details swapped in.

Turn a video into a transcript

You say to AI

Grab the subtitles from this YouTube video and split them into chapters. Use English if there are English subtitles; otherwise use whatever's available.

What AI does

  1. 1.Lists which subtitles the video has
  2. 2.Picks subtitles in your preferred language order
  3. 3.Splits chapters using the timestamps in the description

What you get

A transcript with timestamps, split into chapters, plus the video thumbnail.

Export SRT subtitles

You say to AI

Export this video's English subtitles as an SRT file.

What AI does

  1. 1.Downloads the English subtitles
  2. 2.Converts them to SRT format and saves them

What you get

An SRT subtitle file you can load into a video player.

Want the original instructions? SKILL.md on JimLiu/baoyu-skills

How to install

Which AI tool do you use?

  1. 1. Open the Terminal app on your computer, paste the line below and press Enter

    npx skills add JimLiu/baoyu-skills@baoyu-youtube-transcript -g

    With no tool name, the command looks for the AI tools on your computer and asks where to install. If it says npx is missing or too old, install the latest Node.js (22 or newer) first.

    First time using the terminal?
    • How to open it: on a Mac, press ⌘ + Space and search “Terminal”. On Windows, search “PowerShell” in the Start menu. In Cursor, Trae or VS Code, use the menu Terminal → New Terminal.
    • Windows says “running scripts is disabled”: change npx at the start of the command to npx.cmd and try again.
    • If a list pops up: move with the arrow keys, press Space to tick the tools you want, then press Enter.
    • How to tell it worked: you'll see a success message. Reopen your AI tool and ask “What Skills do you have now?” to check.

    Don't feel like opening a terminal?

    Tools like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Trae can run commands themselves. Send them this:

    Please run this command in my terminal and tell me how it went: npx skills add JimLiu/baoyu-skills@baoyu-youtube-transcript -g

  2. 2. Reopen your AI tool

    New Skills only get picked up after a restart.

  3. 3. Just say what you want

    Say it the way the examples do. To call it by name, say “Use baoyu-youtube-transcript to help me…”.

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