# YouTube Transcripts · jbdamask

> Download transcripts (auto-captions) for videos from a YouTube channel within a date range, as timestamped markdown linked back to the source video. Use when the user wants to grab transcripts/subtitles/captions from a channel, e.g. "download transcripts for all AI Daily Brief videos from July 2026", "get the captions from this channel for last month", "pull transcripts between two dates". Requires yt-dlp and ffmpeg installed.

## Facts
- Page: https://tashan.sh/capability/skill-jbdamask-youtube-transcripts
- tashan id: skill:jbdamask/youtube-transcripts
- Source: https://github.com/jbdamask/john-claude-skills
- Type: skill
- Category: productivity
- tashan score: not scored (catalogued only — too little public evidence)
- Adoption: 9.0
- Upkeep: 97.0
- Freshness: 94.0
- Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use
- Health: active
- Instruction depth: not yet graded
- License: MIT
- Official: no

## Install

```sh
cp -r youtube-transcripts ~/.claude/skills/
```

## Security audit
Not scanned. We audit npm-published capabilities; this one has no npm package we can resolve, or has not reached the queue. This is not a clean bill of health.

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Measured 2026-09-12 by tashan (https://tashan.sh) from public evidence. Scorer s5.