Alternatives to baoyu-youtube-transcript
baoyu-youtube-transcript is an agent skill by JimLiu: Downloads YouTube video transcripts/subtitles and cover images by URL or video ID. If it doesn't fit your setup, these 12 agent skills cover similar ground. They are ordered by how closely they match baoyu-youtube-transcript and by our rank, which weighs adoption, freshness and documentation; money never changes the order. youtube-transcribe leads the list (more recently active (freshness A); supports Python). Each entry shows data reasons to switch, and you can open a side-by-side comparison with baoyu-youtube-transcript.
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baoyu-youtube-transcript
Downloads YouTube video transcripts/subtitles and cover images by URL or video ID.
12 alternatives
Ordered by how closely each matches baoyu-youtube-transcript (shared product, category or stated alternative) and by rank.
- 1youtube-transcribe
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。
- More recently active (freshness A)
- Supports Python
★ 1.3KLast active Oct 8, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 2youtube-api
ZeroPointRepo
Use when YouTube data is needed without Google API quotas or OAuth setup: transcripts, video metadata, channel info, search results, playlists.
- More recently active (freshness B)
★ 1.1KLast active Sep 21, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 3youtube-data
ZeroPointRepo
Use when structured YouTube data is needed: pasted video/channel/playlist links, transcripts for analysis, video metadata, channel upload history, search…
- More recently active (freshness B)
★ 1.1KLast active Sep 21, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 4youtube
maton
YouTube Data API integration with managed OAuth.
- More recently active (freshness A)
★ 400Last active Oct 23, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 5create-youtube-thumbnails
leonvanzyl
Design high-click YouTube thumbnails that show what the video is actually about.
- More recently active (freshness A)
- Supports Python and bash
★ 112Last active Oct 2, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 6youtube-content
taracodlabs
YouTube: transcripts, audio/video downloads (yt-dlp, transcript-api)
- More recently active (freshness A)
★ 863Last active Oct 19, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 7youtube-dlp-python
Jansen611
Download YouTube video transcripts (subtitles/captions) using yt-dlp, with faster-whisper as fallback for local transcription.
- More recently active (freshness B)
- Supports Python
★ 2Last active Sep 12, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 8youtube-description
zrosenfield
Generate engaging YouTube video descriptions from video transcripts.
- More recently active (freshness B)
★ 99Last active Aug 4, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 9youtube-comments-api-skill
browser-act
This skill helps users extract structured video list data and comment data from YouTube using the BrowserAct API.
- Supports Python
★ 6.3KLast active Apr 21, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
DFreshness: D–Security: not graded yet - 10youtube-api-skill
browser-act
This skill helps users automatically extract detailed video metrics and channel information from YouTube based on keyword searches using the BrowserAct API.
- Supports Python
★ 6.3KLast active Apr 21, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
DFreshness: D–Security: not graded yet - 11youtube-watcher
CraftOS-dev
Fetch and read transcripts from YouTube videos.
- More recently active (freshness A)
- Supports Python
★ 400Last active Oct 23, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 12youtube-transcript
tubeagentkit
Calls the getyoutubetranscript.com API, which is metered - 1 credit per successful request; a new account gets 100 free credits, then plans start at $5/month…
- More recently active (freshness A)
- Supports bash
★ 78Last active Oct 17, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet