Is the VideoTranscribe skill free?

Yes. The skill itself is free from Jane-xiaoer/claude-skill-video-transcribe. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.

What is the VideoTranscribe SkillProof Score?

8.0/10 — installs cleanly 5/5, triggers reliably 5/5, output vs. baseline 7/10, docs & honesty 3/5.

How do I install VideoTranscribe?

Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.

Can I use VideoTranscribe with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?

The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.

VideoTranscribe

One-command video/audio to clean text via subtitle scrape or Gemini

by Jane-xiaoer · Jane-xiaoer/claude-skill-video-transcribe

Works with setup

Install — copy the command Download source ↗

Test report

Verdict: Works with setup
Score: 8.0/10
Tested: Jul 17, 2026
Environment: Claude Code 2.x (agent harness)
Upstream re-checked: Aug 10, 2026 · 024c6b9

Ran the bundled transcribe.py live on a real YouTube lecture: it scraped and de-duplicated the auto-captions into a clean 5,300-character transcript at zero API cost, output a plain assistant cannot produce unaided. But it needs a manual yt-dlp and ffmpeg install, the audio path requires a Gemini API key wired into ~/.shared-skills/api-registry/.env, and the workflow files hard-code a ~/.shared-skills/VideoTranscribe path that does not match a normal ~/.claude/skills install, so a verbatim follow breaks until you fix the path.

Scored on four weighted criteria — install, triggering, output vs. baseline, docs. How scoring works

Installs cleanly 5/5
Triggers reliably 5/5
Output vs. baseline 7/10
Docs & honesty 3/5

What VideoTranscribe does

Transcribes local video/audio files or online URLs (YouTube, Bilibili, and other yt-dlp platforms) to text, preferring free subtitle scraping and falling back to Gemini 2.5 Flash or offline mlx-whisper. Triggers on requests to transcribe, caption, or summarize a video or audio source. Requires yt-dlp and ffmpeg installed, plus a Gemini API key for the audio path.

How to install VideoTranscribe

git clone https://github.com/Jane-xiaoer/claude-skill-video-transcribe
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r claude-skill-video-transcribe ~/.claude/skills/videotranscribe

Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ (per-project). Restart Claude Code after installing.

Commands — how to trigger VideoTranscribe

/videotranscribe One-command video/audio to clean text via subtitle scrape or Gemini

It also activates on plain-language prompts like these:

Transcribe this YouTube lecture into clean text for me.
Get me a transcript of this Bilibili video without paying for an API.
Caption this local audio file using the offline whisper fallback.

Frequently asked questions

Is the VideoTranscribe skill free?: Yes. The skill itself is free from Jane-xiaoer/claude-skill-video-transcribe. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.
Does VideoTranscribe work with Claude Code?: We tested it with Claude Code 2.x (agent harness) on Jul 17, 2026. Verdict: Works with setup. Ran the bundled transcribe.py live on a real YouTube lecture: it scraped and de-duplicated the auto-captions into a clean 5,300-character transcript at zero API cost, output a plain assistant cannot produce unaided. But it needs a manual yt-dlp and ffmpeg install, the audio path requires a Gemini API key wired into ~/.shared-skills/api-registry/.env, and the workflow files hard-code a ~/.shared-skills/VideoTranscribe path that does not match a normal ~/.claude/skills install, so a verbatim follow breaks until you fix the path.
What is the VideoTranscribe SkillProof Score?: 8.0/10 — installs cleanly 5/5, triggers reliably 5/5, output vs. baseline 7/10, docs & honesty 3/5.
How do I install VideoTranscribe?: Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.
Can I use VideoTranscribe with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?: The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.