By name: youtube-to-markdown description: Use when user asks YouTube video extraction, get, fetch, transcripts, subtitles, or captions. Writes video details and transcription into structured markdown file. allowed-tools: - Bash - Read - Write - Task - AskUserQuestion - Skill
YouTube to Markdown
Multiple videos: Process one video at a time, sequentially. Do not run parallel extractions. Do not create your own scripts.
Step 0: Check if extracted before
python3 ./check_existing.py "<YOUTUBE_URL>" "<output_directory>"
If any *_valid: false: Show the issues to user and proceed.
Output JSON contains video_id. Set BASE_NAME = youtube_{video_id} for all subsequent steps.
Step 1: Choose output
AskUserQuestion:
- question: "What do you want to extract from the video?"
- header: "Output"
- multiSelect: false
- options: A. "Summary only" - Tight summary of video content B. "Transcript only" - Cleaned, formatted full transcript C. "Comments only" - Curated comments D. "Summary + Comments" - Summary with cross-analyzed comment insights E. "Full (Recommended)" - All: summary, transcript, comments
Step 2: Execute modules
Based on user's choice, read and follow each module instruction in ./modules/{file}. "|" marks possibility to run concurrently.
- A: transcript_extract.md → transcript_summarize.md
- B: transcript_extract.md → transcript_polish.md
- C: comment_extract.md
- D: transcript_extract.md → (transcript_summarize.md | comment_extract.md) → comment_summarize.md
- E: transcript_extract.md → (transcript_summarize.md | transcript_polish.md | comment_extract.md) → comment_summarize.md
Step 3: Finalize
python3 finalize.py [flag] "${BASE_NAME}" "<output_directory>"
Flags: A=--summary-only, B=--transcript-only, C=--comments-only, D=--summary-comments, E=(none)
Use --debug to keep intermediate files.