YouTube Videos

Use this skill to transcribe YouTube videos and ask questions about their content.

Tools

• yt-dlp — extract auto-generated subtitles
• llm (Gemini) — answer questions using the video and its metadata

Run yt-dlp --help once before first use.

Usage

Transcribe

yt-dlp -q --skip-download --write-auto-subs --sub-format vtt -o /tmp/$VIDEO_SLUG.vtt "VIDEO_URL"

Question

llm -m gemini-3-pro-preview -a "VIDEO_URL" "QUERY"

Workflow

1. Start a new tmux session with the llm command query to the video.
2. Generate the transcript with yt-dlp.
3. Wait for the llm response, meanwhile, read the transcription.
4. Get back to the user.