Video2Skill

YouTube to text: turn a YouTube video into AI-ready notes

Save the YouTube video to your computer, drop the file into Video2Skill, and get clean, timestamped text an AI can actually work with.

Choose a quick transcript, or the full skill.md that also captures what appears on screen — the buttons, menus and dialogs a transcript can never record.

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Why you upload the file instead of pasting a link

YouTube blocks automated downloads from server infrastructure, and any tool that claims otherwise is either fetching low-quality auto-captions or will break the week YouTube tightens its checks. We would rather ask you for one extra step than hand you a file that silently misses half the video. Save the video with any YouTube downloader, then upload it here.

What you get that captions don't give you

YouTube's own captions record what was said, never what was shown. For a software tutorial that is the half that matters: the narrator says "click here and set this to weekly" and neither *here* nor *this* exists in the caption track. Video2Skill adds OCR of every on-screen label and a visual analysis of each key moment, so every step is tied to something actually visible.

Use it anywhere

Feed the result to ChatGPT, Claude or your own agent to summarize, answer questions or follow a step-by-step procedure extracted from the tutorial.

What you get

  • ✓Timestamped transcript you can cite
  • ✓On-screen text captured with OCR
  • ✓Full skill.md option with visual context
  • ✓Cheaper transcript-only mode

FAQ

Why can't I just paste a YouTube link?
YouTube blocks automated downloads from datacenter servers. Rather than ship a feature that works one day and fails the next, we ask you to upload the file — which always works, for any video, at full quality.
How do I save a YouTube video?
Any YouTube downloader works, and YouTube Premium lets you download your own and others' videos officially. Only process videos you have the rights to.
Isn't this the same as YouTube's automatic captions?
No. Auto-captions are one imperfect text track. Video2Skill transcribes the audio directly, reads the on-screen text, and analyzes the interface at each key moment — then grounds every procedural step in that evidence.
Does it keep timestamps?
Yes, the transcript and skill.md keep global timestamps so an AI can cite exact moments.

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