# YouTube Transcript Downloader

> YouTube Transcript Downloader is a community-maintained skill from michalparkola. Anomity scores its risk at 40 out of 100 (medium).

- **Canonical URL:** https://catalog.anomity.ai/skill/youtube-transcript-downloader
- **Kind:** Skill
- **Publisher:** michalparkola
- **Trust level:** community
- **Risk score:** 40/100 (medium)
- **Website:** https://github.com/michalparkola
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-02
- **JSON:** https://catalog.anomity.ai/api/entries/skill/youtube-transcript-downloader

## Description

Retrieves and processes transcripts from YouTube URLs so an agent can work with the contents of a talk or tutorial as text instead of being told to watch a video it cannot watch.

Outbound network access is its only capability, making it a low-risk utility. The standard retrieval caveat applies and is easy to forget with video: a transcript is text an unknown person wrote, and an agent that summarises it is processing untrusted input. Video feels less like a document than a web page, which is precisely why it is a convenient injection surface.

## Why it scored 40

The score starts at the catalog's neutral base of 50 and moves only through the signals below. The formula is published at https://catalog.anomity.ai/about — there is no model and no hidden heuristic.

| Signal | Contribution | Severity | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Established community project | -10 | trust offset |  |

Clamped result: **40/100**, band **medium**.

## Capabilities

| Capability | Name | Security implication |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `network:outbound` | Outbound network | Can make outbound network requests. Required for hosted model providers and remote APIs; also the path for data exfiltration if combined with read access. |

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Source: Anomity Catalog (https://catalog.anomity.ai/). Scoring methodology: https://catalog.anomity.ai/about. Machine-readable index: https://catalog.anomity.ai/llms.txt · https://catalog.anomity.ai/openapi.json