ingest-youtube
Pull a YouTube video transcript into a queryable markdown vault with yt-dlp subtitle discovery, VTT cleanup, metadata frontmatter, and capture-seed stubs.
ingest-youtube — YouTube-to-vault connector
Pulls YouTube transcripts into a markdown vault as queryable typed-memory entries that downstream skills (knowledge graph extraction, voice-fingerprint training, content repurposing, action-item extraction) can act on.
Same pattern as ingest-slack, ingest-whatsapp, ingest-notion, ingest-linear, ingest-github, ingest-gmail. Adding YouTube means a new normalizer, not a new architecture.
When to use
- User pastes a YouTube URL and asks for a transcript or summary
- User says
/ingest-youtube <url>for a single video - User asks to capture, sync, ingest, transcribe, or pull a talk/podcast/keynote into the vault
Do NOT use for:
- Downloading the actual video file (use
yt-dlpdirectly with-f best) - Channel-wide ingestion or
--dayswindows; this script ingests one video URL at a time - Live streams (transcripts are not stable)
- Non-YouTube sources (Vimeo, Twitch, Twitter Spaces have their own connectors)
- One-off transcript reads where the user does not want a vault file (run
yt-dlp --write-auto-subdirectly and pipe to stdout)
How it works
- Parse the input as one YouTube video URL.
- Verify
yt-dlpis installed. If not, the script exits with install instructions:brew install yt-dlp(macOS) orpip3 install --user yt-dlp. - Validate the URL as a single http(s) YouTube video and call `yt-dlp --ignore-conf
Subscribers only
The full skill, its 2 bundled files and every download is included with every paid Complete AI plan.
Details
| Source | adelaidasofia/ai-brain-starter |
|---|---|
| License | MIT |
| Risk label | safe ("critical" means the skill may run commands or touch files — read before use) |
| Files | SKILL.md, ingest.py |
| Added | 2026-05-09 |
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