Alternatives to youtube-transcribe
youtube-transcribe is an agent skill by chubbyguan: YouTube 视频 → 下载 → 转录 → 翻译 → 存为 Markdown。 支持中英文,英文内容自动翻译成中文,输出中英对照。. If it doesn't fit your setup, these 12 agent skills cover similar ground. They are ordered by how closely they match youtube-transcribe and by our rank, which weighs adoption, freshness and documentation; money never changes the order. weibo-transcribe leads the list (repository has 1.3K stars; active in the last 30 days). 1 of them is published by the company behind the product. Each entry shows data reasons to switch, and you can open a side-by-side comparison with youtube-transcribe.
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youtube-transcribe
YouTube 视频 → 下载 → 转录 → 翻译 → 存为 Markdown。 支持中英文,英文内容自动翻译成中文,输出中英对照。
12 alternatives
Ordered by how closely each matches youtube-transcribe (shared product, category or stated alternative) and by rank.
- 1weibo-transcribe
chubbyguan
微博视频 → 下载 → 转录 → 存为 Markdown。 支持 weibo.com 和 m.weibo.cn 链接,无需登录。
- Repository has 1.3K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 1.3KLast active Oct 8, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 2tiktok-transcribe
chubbyguan
TikTok 视频 → 下载 → 转录 → 存为 Markdown。 支持 vm.tiktok.com / vt.tiktok.com 短链和完整链接,无需登录。
- Repository has 1.3K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 1.3KLast active Oct 8, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 3venice-audio-transcription
veniceai
Transcribe audio files to text via POST /audio/transcriptions.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 155Last active Oct 5, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 4subtitles
ZeroPointRepo
Use when subtitles or the spoken text of a YouTube video is needed: pasted video links or IDs, requests to translate a video, read along, follow…
- Repository has 1.1K stars
- Open source (MIT)
★ 1.1KLast active Sep 21, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 5create-youtube-thumbnails
leonvanzyl
Design high-click YouTube thumbnails that show what the video is actually about.
- Supports bash
★ 112Last active Oct 2, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 6baoyu-youtube-transcript
JimLiu
Downloads YouTube video transcripts/subtitles and cover images by URL or video ID.
- Larger repository (26.9K stars)
- Supports TypeScript
★ 26.9KLast active Jun 18, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
CFreshness: C–Security: not graded yet - 7transcribe-audio
barefootford
Transcribes video audio using WhisperX, preserving original timestamps.
★ 608Last active Sep 14, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 8ra-audio-to-subtitles
Pluviobyte
Generate production subtitle artifacts from the final narration audio or final merged video using Volcengine Doubao ASR word timestamps.
- Repository has 1.7K stars
- Ships helper scripts
★ 1.7KLast active Jul 27, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 9speech-to-text
elevenlabsOfficial
Transcribe audio to text using ElevenLabs Scribe v2.
- Published by the vendor
★ 508Last active Oct 22, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 10transcribing-audio
boldsoftware
Use when a task requires STT/ASR.
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 710Last active Oct 24, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 11openai-whisper-api
spinabot
Transcribe audio via OpenAI Audio Transcriptions API (Whisper).
- Larger repository (11.4K stars)
- Supports bash
★ 11.4KLast active Sep 15, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 12youtube-api
ZeroPointRepo
Use when YouTube data is needed without Google API quotas or OAuth setup: transcripts, video metadata, channel info, search results, playlists.
- Repository has 1.1K stars
- Open source (MIT)
★ 1.1KLast active Sep 21, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet