Video Transcript Downloader

A CLI skill that prints video transcripts as clean paragraphs (with optional timestamps) and downloads video, audio, or subtitles using ./scripts/vtd.js, backed by yt-dlp, ffmpeg, and youtube-transcript-plus for YouTube.

Tasks

Download a transcript as a clean paragraph from a video URL
Download video, audio, or subtitles to an output directory
List available formats (format ids, resolution, container, audio-only)
Download a specific format id or remux to MP4

Inputs

--url with a video URL
--lang for language selection (e.g. en)
--timestamps to include timestamps
--keep-brackets to keep bracketed cues like [Music]
--output-dir for download destination
Extra yt-dlp arguments after --

Outputs

Clean paragraph transcript (timestamps optional)
Downloaded video/audio/subtitle files
List of available formats

Limitations and checks

No platform support documented beyond a Setup path under ~/Projects on a Unix-style system
License not documented in the source
Run ./scripts/vtd.js transcript --url 'https://…' and confirm a clean paragraph is printed
Run ./scripts/vtd.js formats --url 'https://…' and confirm format ids, resolution, and container info are listed
Run ./scripts/vtd.js download --url 'https://…' --output-dir ~/Downloads and confirm the file appears in the output directory

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Video Transcript Downloader

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