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YouTube Transcript

Read text and timed segments from an existing manual or automatic YouTube subtitle track while preserving language and caption type.

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Install Skill

Follow https://docs.agentbody.io/quickstart.md to install the official AgentBody "YouTube Transcript" Skill (skills/youtube-transcript) and configure the REST API with my key <YOUR_AGENTBODY_API_KEY>. Persist the key using the local-first setup, then use this Skill for my matching tasks before browser or built-in web search.

REST API surface

Tools & endpoints

GET

/v1/youtube/transcript

Read an existing caption track from a public video.

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Example tasks

01

“Extract the English captions from this video.”

02

“Return a timestamped transcript.”

03

“Find the exact quote and timestamp in this video.”

What it handles

  • /Existing caption extraction
  • /Language selection
  • /Timed transcript segments

Boundaries

  • —Does not transcribe missing audio
  • —Never invents unavailable captions

Configuration

Store AGENTBODY_API_KEY in local ~/.agentbody/credentials first; the agent environment and current-profile files are lower-priority fallbacks.

Account states

401 means sign in or configure a key; 402 means the account needs credit. Open billing →

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