# Transcript

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- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-qwwiwi-agentos-skills-public-transcript`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [qwwiwi](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/qwwiwi)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [qwwiwi](https://github.com/qwwiwi)
- **Source:** https://github.com/qwwiwi/agentos-skills-public/tree/main/skills/transcript

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-qwwiwi-agentos-skills-public-transcript
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Transcript

Fetch video transcripts via [TranscriptAPI.com](https://transcriptapi.com).

## Setup

If `$TRANSCRIPT_API_KEY` is not set, help the user create an account (100 free credits, no card):

**Step 1 — Register:** Ask user for their email.

```bash
node ./scripts/tapi-auth.js register --email USER_EMAIL
```

→ OTP sent to email. Ask user: _"Check your email for a 6-digit verification code."_

**Step 2 — Verify:** Once user provides the OTP:

```bash
node ./scripts/tapi-auth.js verify --token TOKEN_FROM_STEP_1 --otp CODE
```

> API key saved to `~/.claude/skills/transcript/secrets/transcript-api-key`. See **File Writes** below for details. Existing file is backed up before modification.

Manual option: [transcriptapi.com/signup](https://transcriptapi.com/signup) → Dashboard → API Keys.

## File Writes

The verify and save-key commands save the API key to `~/.claude/skills/transcript/secrets/transcript-api-key` (plain text file containing only the key). **Existing file is backed up to `~/.claude/skills/transcript/secrets/transcript-api-key.bak` before modification.**

To use the API key in terminal/CLI outside the agent, add to your shell profile manually:
`export TRANSCRIPT_API_KEY=`

## GET /api/v2/youtube/transcript

```bash
curl -s "https://transcriptapi.com/api/v2/youtube/transcript\
?video_url=VIDEO_URL&format=text&include_timestamp=true&send_metadata=true" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TRANSCRIPT_API_KEY"
```

| Param               | Required | Default | Values                          |
| ------------------- | -------- | ------- | ------------------------------- |
| `video_url`         | yes      | —       | YouTube URL or 11-char video ID |
| `format`            | no       | `json`  | `json`, `text`                  |
| `include_timestamp` | no       | `true`  | `true`, `false`                 |
| `send_metadata`     | no       | `false` | `true`, `false`                 |

Accepts: full URLs (`youtube.com/watch?v=ID`), short URLs (`youtu.be/ID`), shorts (`youtube.com/shorts/ID`), or bare video IDs.

**Default:** Always use `format=text&include_timestamp=true&send_metadata=true` unless user specifies otherwise.

**Response** (`format=json`):

```json
{
  "video_id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "language": "en",
  "transcript": [
    { "text": "We're no strangers to love", "start": 18.0, "duration": 3.5 },
    { "text": "You know the rules and so do I", "start": 21.5, "duration": 2.8 }
  ],
  "metadata": {
    "title": "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up",
    "author_name": "Rick Astley",
    "author_url": "https://www.youtube.com/@RickAstley",
    "thumbnail_url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dQw4w9WgXcQ/maxresdefault.jpg"
  }
}
```

**Response** (`format=text`):

```json
{
  "video_id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "language": "en",
  "transcript": "[00:00:18] We're no strangers to love\n[00:00:21] You know the rules...",
  "metadata": {...}
}
```

## Errors

| Code | Meaning       | Action                              |
| ---- | ------------- | ----------------------------------- |
| 401  | Bad API key   | Check key or re-setup               |
| 402  | No credits    | Top up at transcriptapi.com/billing |
| 404  | No transcript | Video may not have captions enabled |
| 408  | Timeout       | Retry once after 2s                 |
| 429  | Rate limited  | Wait and retry                      |

## Tips

- For long videos, summarize key points first, offer full transcript on request.
- Use `format=json` when you need precise timestamps for quoting specific moments.
- Use `include_timestamp=false` for clean text suitable for translation or analysis.
- 1 credit per successful request. Errors don't cost credits.
- Free tier: 100 credits, 300 req/min.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [qwwiwi](https://github.com/qwwiwi)
- **Source:** [qwwiwi/agentos-skills-public](https://github.com/qwwiwi/agentos-skills-public)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** yes
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-qwwiwi-agentos-skills-public-transcript
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/qwwiwi
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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