AI-Driven YouTube Captions Extractor for Accessibility & Learning

AI-Driven YouTube Captions Extractor for Accessibility & Learning

This AI agent skill is designed to extract timestamped captions from YouTube videos, facilitating greater accessibility and learning opportunities. It can retrieve closed captions for any video, providing developers and teams with the necessary data for accessibility, language learning, and content review.

What this skill does

• Accepts YouTube video links or IDs to fetch caption data.
• Extracts timestamped closed captions using the TranscriptAPI service.
• Serves the caption data in JSON format, optionally with additional metadata.
• Designed not to handle subtitle uploads or manage YouTube accounts.

Who it is for

• Developers using AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex.
• Teams who require accessible solutions for deaf or hard-of-hearing users.
• Content reviewers and language learning facilitators leveraging video materials.

Use cases

• Enhance accessibility by providing transcriptions for video content.
• Support language learners by examining spoken text and subtitles.
• Aid in content analysis by providing text transformation of video dialogue.

Technical details

• Uses the TranscriptAPI service to extract captions from videos.
• Requires setting up an API key and including it in request headers.
• Every request must specify an Authorization header and User-Agent.
• Data retrieval is accomplished via a predefined GET request format to the TranscriptAPI endpoint.

This skill targets publicly available YouTube information only. Users should ensure compliance with YouTube's terms of service when utilizing this skill.

Source & Licence

This package is built on open-source work published by ZeroPointRepo (ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills) and distributed under MIT. The original licence text and copyright notice are included in your download.

Personal and commercial use, modification and redistribution are permitted, provided the original copyright and licence notice are retained.

Your purchase covers curation, licence verification, packaging, documentation and instant delivery. It does not grant exclusive rights to the underlying open-source code, which remains available under its original licence.

Delivery & Support

• Delivery: instant — a secure download link is emailed to you as soon as payment is confirmed.
• Format: ZIP archive containing the skill files, documentation and the original licence.
• Support: support@mcpcart.com — we aim to reply within 2 business days.
• Updates: updates are included only where stated on this page.

Refunds

This is a digital product delivered immediately after purchase. By completing your order you request immediate delivery and acknowledge that, once the download has been accessed, the statutory right to cancel no longer applies to the extent permitted by law. Refund requests are handled in accordance with our published Refund Policy.

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