YouTube transcript extraction and content reformatting: given a YouTube video URL, opens the video's transcript panel, extracts all timestamped segments, and transforms the raw transcript into summaries, chapter outli…
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name: youtube-transcript
description: "YouTube transcript extraction and content reformatting: given a YouTube video URL, opens the video's transcript panel, extracts all timestamped segments, and transforms the raw transcript into summaries, chapter outlines, Twitter/X threads, blog posts, or notable quotes. Use when the user shares a YouTube URL or video link, asks to summarize a video, get a transcript, extract content from a YouTube video, get YouTube captions, extract YouTube captions, download YouTube captions, transcribe YouTube video, YouTube video to text, make a thread from YouTube, YouTube to blog post, YouTube to article, pull transcript from YouTube, YouTube content extraction, convert YouTube to text, video to transcript. Also applies when user wants to reformat any YouTube video content into structured output (chapters, threads, blog articles, key quotes)."
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# YouTube — Transcript Extraction & Content Reformatting
> YouTube video URL → timestamped transcript → summary / chapters / thread / blog / quotes
## Language
All process output to user (progress updates, process notifications) follows the user's language.
## Objective
Extract the full transcript from a YouTube video's built-in transcript panel, then transform it into the output format the user requests.
## Prerequisites
- Target YouTube video page is already open in the browser: `https://www.youtube.com/watch?v={VIDEO_ID}`
## Pre-execution Checks
### 1. Tool Readiness
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