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title: "youtube-digest"
description: "Extract YouTube video transcripts (subtitles/voice-over) as clean text or Excel"
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/youtube-digest
last-updated: 2026-09-15
---

# youtube-digest
Extract YouTube video transcripts (subtitles/voice-over) as clean text or Excel
- Slug: youtube-digest
- Publisher: Redfox Data
- Repository: https://github.com/redfox-data/redfox-agent-plugins
- Manifest: plugins/youtube-digest/plugin.json
- Version: 1.0.0
- License: MIT
- Category (editorial): other
- Skills: 1 (youtube-digest)
- MCP servers: 0
- Stars: 0
- Repository created: 2026-09-15
- Repository last pushed: 2026-09-15
- Publisher type: User
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/youtube-digest
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## What youtube-digest does, in the publisher's words

> Extract YouTube video transcripts as clean text or Excel

Powered by Redfox Data: this plugin works across Claude Code / OpenAI Codex / Cursor / Gemini CLI and any client conforming to the Agent Plugins or Agent Skills open standards.

Paste any YouTube URL or video ID and extract the full transcript. Chinese subtitles preferred; falls back to English with auto-translation to Chinese if needed. Output as clean text without timestamps by default, or as a timestamped table exportable to Excel.

From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/redfox-data/redfox-agent-plugins/HEAD/plugins/youtube-digest/README.md

## Skills

- youtube-digest: YouTube transcript extractor: paste a YouTube video link or ID and extract the full spoken transcript (captions). Defaults to clean text without timestamps; caption track priority zh,en,asr with automatic translation of non-Chinese captions into Chinese (disable with --no-translate to keep the orig…

Descriptions come from the frontmatter of each SKILL.md, punctuation lightly normalized.