youtube-transcript-minimal
A minimalist YouTube transcript downloader made for the agent era — one click gets any video’s captions into Codex or Muse. No popups, ads, accounts, or third-party servers.
Details
- External ID
- 1376499671
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- youtube-transcript-minimal
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 18, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 11
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33858570330514987
- Tags
- captions, chrome-extension, srt, transcript, vtt, youtube
- Fetched at
- Sept. 22, 2026, 5:03 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 22, 2026, 5:03 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- video transcription and extraction tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Data infrastructure
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- youtube transcript scraper for ai agents
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Extracting YouTube transcripts without third-party servers relies on well-known open-source methods or scraping the public timedtext endpoint, which is easy to script.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 109 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #42 of 110 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 315 days after the earliest competitor.
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- YouTube Transcript Tool · ph · 2026-03-26 · 202 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- TubeTranscriber · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- youtube-transcript-api · github · 2026-09-28 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Capslane · ph · 2026-09-07 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- TranscriptCut · ph · 2026-09-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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