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Youtube Fetcher To Markdown

Claude Code skill: turn YouTube videos into structured, Obsidian-ready Markdown notes with full metadata, chapters, and transcripts

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Price unconfirmed★ 191 GitHub starsRegistry updated · Sep 1, 2026youtubetranscriptionmarkdown

Overview

A Claude Code skill that converts YouTube videos into structured, Obsidian-ready Markdown notes with metadata, chapters, and transcripts without an API key.

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YouTube Fetcher to Markdown

YouTube Fetcher to Markdown — archival note skill ↗

YouTube video in, structured archival Markdown note out. Capture the transcript, creator metadata, description, chapters, actual caption language, and provenance in one Obsidian-ready file—without an API key.

npx skills add JimmySadek/youtube-fetcher-to-markdown

What you get

Paste a YouTube link and receive a file such as:

~/yt_transcripts/2026-03-04_obsidian-the-king-of-learning-tools_[hSTy_BInQs8].md
---
title: "Obsidian: The King of Learning Tools (FULL GUIDE + SETUP)"
channel: "Odysseas"
url: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSTy_BInQs8"
video_id: "hSTy_BInQs8"
fetched: "2026-03-04"
source_project: "my-project"
language: "en"
caption_type: "manual"
duration: "36m 26s"
upload_date: "2024-04-24"
tags:
  - yt-transcript
---

# Obsidian: The King of Learning Tools (FULL GUIDE + SETUP)

## Video Details
| Field    | Value |
|----------|-------|
| URL      | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSTy_BInQs8 |
| Channel  | Odysseas |
| Duration | 36m 26s |
| Uploaded | 2024-04-24 |
| Fetched  | 2026-03-04 |
| Source   | my-project |
| Language | en (manual) |

## Video Description
The creator's description, links, and chapter markers...

## Transcript
The complete caption text...

The YAML frontmatter makes a collection queryable through tools such as Dataview, while the Markdown remains portable to Logseq, other knowledge bases, and plain text workflows.

Why this exists

Most transcript extractors stop at raw caption text. An archival knowledge note also needs the source URL, creator, capture date, actual language, description, chapters, and a predictable filename. YouTube Fetcher keeps that complete record in one local file.

Features

  • Manual and auto-generated captions with optional timestamps
  • Truthful langu
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# YouTube Fetcher to Markdown

<p align="center">
  <img src="assets/banner.png" alt="YouTube Fetcher to Markdown — archival note skill" width="100%">
</p>

YouTube video in, structured archival Markdown note out. Capture the transcript,
creator metadata, description, chapters, actual caption language, and provenance
in one Obsidian-ready file—without an API key.

```bash
npx skills add JimmySadek/youtube-fetcher-to-markdown
```

## What you get

Paste a YouTube link and receive a file such as:

```text
~/yt_transcripts/2026-03-04_obsidian-the-king-of-learning-tools_[hSTy_BInQs8].md
```

```markdown
---
title: "Obsidian: The King of Learning Tools (FULL GUIDE + SETUP)"
channel: "Odysseas"
url: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSTy_BInQs8"
video_id: "hSTy_BInQs8"
fetched: "2026-03-04"
source_project: "my-project"
language: "en"
caption_type: "manual"
duration: "36m 26s"
upload_date: "2024-04-24"
tags:
  - yt-transcript
---

# Obsidian: The King of Learning Tools (FULL GUIDE + SETUP)

## Video Details
| Field    | Value |
|----------|-------|
| URL      | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSTy_BInQs8 |
| Channel  | Odysseas |
| Duration | 36m 26s |
| Uploaded | 2024-04-24 |
| Fetched  | 2026-03-04 |
| Source   | my-project |
| Language | en (manual) |

## Video Description
The creator's description, links, and chapter markers...

## Transcript
The complete caption text...
```

The YAML frontmatter makes a collection queryable through tools such as
[Dataview](https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview), while the Markdown
remains portable to Logseq, other knowledge bases, and plain text workflows.

## Why this exists

Most transcript extractors stop at raw caption text. An archival knowledge note
also needs the source URL, creator, capture date, actual language, description,
chapters, and a predictable filename. YouTube Fetcher keeps that complete record
in one local file.

## Features

- Manual and auto-generated captions with optional timestamps
- Truthful langu

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Source repository
JimmySadek/youtube-fetcher-to-markdown
License
MIT
Version
1.0.0
Last GitHub push
Aug 3, 2026
Registry updated
Sep 1, 2026
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  • Stars/forks activity: 191 stars, 15 forks; issue activity unavailable in current metadata
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  • Permission surface: secrets or environment access, shell or command execution
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