Setup & Installation
Or with the ClawHub CLI, for registry-managed skill folders outside a full OpenClaw workspace:
Version History
Initial release with enhanced authentication and subtitle-only download options. - Added support for cookie-authenticated downloads using "cookie", "cookiesfrombrowser", and "cookiefile" parameters. - New "onlysubtitle" option allows downloading subtitles without downloading video files. - Updated dependencies to require yt-dlp-ejs and use "python" instead of "python3". - Documentation expanded to include cookie usage instructions and troubleshooting tips for authentication errors.
What This Skill Does
Downloads videos from 1800+ websites using yt-dlp and generates subtitles via Faster Whisper AI. Supports YouTube, Bilibili, TikTok, Twitter/X, Twitch, and hundreds of other platforms. Output includes the video file, extracted audio, and a subtitle file in txt, srt, vtt, or json format.
Combines downloading from 1800+ sites with AI transcription in a single workflow, removing the need for separate download and transcription tools.
When to use it
- Downloading YouTube videos for offline viewing
- Extracting transcripts from Bilibili lectures
- Archiving TikTok clips before deletion
- Generating SRT subtitles for foreign-language videos
- Batch downloading Twitch VODs across multiple platforms
Example Workflow
Here's how your AI assistant might use this skill in practice.
User asks: Download this YouTube video and generate SRT subtitles
- 1Receives the YouTube URL and output directory from the user
- 2Runs video_parser.py with the URL and subtitle_format set to srt
- 3yt-dlp downloads the video and saves it to the output folder
- 4ffmpeg extracts audio as a WAV file
- 5Faster Whisper transcribes the audio and writes an .srt subtitle file
A folder containing the downloaded video, extracted WAV audio, and an SRT subtitle file
Requirements
Accounts, API keys, or tools you or your AI assistant may need to set up while using this skill.