summarize-transcripts

What problem does it solve?

This Skill addresses the challenge of sifting through lengthy YouTube transcripts by automatically generating concise AI summaries, making content discovery and organization significantly easier.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Automated Summarization: Generates ~500-word AI summaries for downloaded YouTube transcripts.
• Frontmatter Integration: Adds summaries directly into the YAML frontmatter of transcript files for easy access.
• Batch Processing: Efficiently summarizes transcripts across multiple channels or an entire archive.
• Use Case: Quickly understand the key takeaways from a channel's video library without watching each video, by reviewing the generated summaries in the transcript files.

Quick Start

Use the ytscriber summarize command to process transcripts for a specific folder.