video-transcript-downloader

Video Transcript Downloader

./scripts/vtd.js can:

• Print a transcript as a clean paragraph (timestamps optional).
• Download video/audio/subtitles.

Transcript behavior:

• YouTube: fetch via youtube-transcript-plus when possible.
• Otherwise: pull subtitles via yt-dlp, then clean into a paragraph.

Setup

cd ~/Projects/agent-scripts/skills/video-transcript-downloader && npm ci

CLI syntax:

./scripts/vtd.js --help
./scripts/vtd.js transcript --help

Subcommands support focused help without requiring --url.

Transcript (default: clean paragraph)

Download video / audio / subtitles

Formats (list + choose)

List available formats (format ids, resolution, container, audio-only, etc):

Download a specific format id (example):

Prefer MP4 container without re-encoding (remux when possible):

Notes

• Default transcript output is a single paragraph. Use --timestamps only when asked.
• Bracketed cues like [Music] are stripped by default; keep them via --keep-brackets.
• Pass extra yt-dlp args after -- for transcript fallback, download, audio, subs, formats.

Troubleshooting (only when needed)

• Missing yt-dlp / ffmpeg:

• Verify: