Requirements
- Target platform
- OpenClaw
- Install method
- Manual import
- Extraction
- Extract archive
- Prerequisites
- OpenClaw
- Primary doc
- SKILL.md
Download videos from 1800+ websites and generate subtitles using Faster Whisper AI. Use when user wants to download videos from YouTube, Bilibili, Twitter, T...
Download videos from 1800+ websites and generate subtitles using Faster Whisper AI. Use when user wants to download videos from YouTube, Bilibili, Twitter, T...
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This skill downloads videos from 1800+ websites and generates subtitles using Faster Whisper AI.
This skill supports downloading from virtually any video website thanks to yt-dlp. Some popular ones include: Video Platforms: YouTube, YouTube Shorts Bilibili (ๅๅฉๅๅฉ), Niconico (ใใณใใณๅ็ป) TikTok, Douyin (ๆ้ณ) Twitter/X, Facebook, Instagram Vimeo, Dailymotion Twitch (clips, VODs), Kick Rutube, VK Video Chinese Platforms: iQiyi (็ฑๅฅ่บ), Youku (ไผ้ ท), MangoTV (่ๆTV) Weibo Video, Douyu (ๆ้ฑผ), Huya (่็) International: Netflix, Disney+, HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video BBC iPlayer, ITV, Channel 4 ARD, ZDF, Arte For the complete list of 1800+ supported sites, see: yt-dlp supported extractors Local document about supported sites: references/supportedsites.md Important: If you see an error like Sign in to confirm youโre not a bot, you should use the cookiefile parameter for authenticated downloads. See the cookiefile usage section at the end of this document.
Ensure the following Python packages are installed: yt-dlp - For downloading videos from any supported site yt-dlp-ejs - External JavaScript for yt-dlp supporting many runtimes ffmpeg-python - For audio extraction faster-whisper - For speech-to-text transcription (faster and more memory-efficient than openai-whisper). Note: The first run will download models from HuggingFace (default: small, ~3GB). A VPN is required for mainland China users. tqdm - For progress bar display during transcription Install via pip: pip install yt-dlp yt-dlp-ejs ffmpeg-python faster-whisper tqdm ffmpeg must also be installed on your system
python scripts/video_parser.py '{"urls":["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"],"output":"./downloads"}'
ParameterTypeRequiredDescriptionurlsarrayYesList of video URLs from any supported websiteoutputstringNoOutput directory (default: "./downloads")modelstringNoFaster Whisper model size: tiny, base, small, medium, large, large-v2, large-v3, turbo (default: "small")transcribebooleanNoWhether to transcribe video to subtitle (default: true)subtitle_formatstringNoSubtitle format: txt, srt, vtt, json (default: "txt")download_subtitlebooleanNoDownload video's built-in subtitles if available (default: false)onlysubtitlebooleanNoOnly download subtitles. When true, the script uses skip_download + writesubtitles + writeautomaticsub internally (default: false)overwrite_subtitlebooleanNoOverwrite existing subtitle files (default: true, set to false to skip if exists)cookiestringNoCookie header string; injected into http_headers.Cookie (default: "")cookiesfrombrowserstringNoRead cookies from browser (default: ""; injected only when non-empty)cookiefilestringNoNetscape-format cookie file path (default: ""; injected only when non-empty)
The skill will: Create a folder for each video (named after the video title) Download the video file to that folder Extract audio as WAV file Generate transcript using Faster Whisper Save subtitle as .txt file Output structure: downloads/ โโโ Video Title/ โโโ Video Title.mp4 โโโ Video Title.wav โโโ Video Title.txt
python scripts/video_parser.py '{"urls":["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"],"output":"./my_videos"}'
python scripts/video_parser.py '{"urls":["https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1xx411c7XD"],"output":"./downloads"}'
python scripts/video_parser.py '{"urls":["https://www.tiktok.com/@username/video/1234567890"],"output":"./tiktok"}'
python scripts/video_parser.py '{"urls":["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO1","https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1xx","https://twitter.com/user/status/123"],"output":"./videos"}'
python scripts/video_parser.py '{"urls":["https://www.twitch.tv//channel/clip/ClipName"],"output":"./clips"}'
python scripts/video_parser.py '{"urls":["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"],"output":"./downloads","transcribe":false}'
python scripts/video_parser.py '{"urls":["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"],"output":"./downloads","subtitle_format":"srt"}'
python scripts/video_parser.py '{"urls":["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"],"output":"./downloads","subtitle_format":"vtt"}'
python scripts/video_parser.py '{"urls":["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"],"output":"./downloads","download_subtitle":true}'
python scripts/video_parser.py '{"urls":["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"],"output":"./downloads","model":"large"}'
python scripts/video_parser.py '{"urls":["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"],"output":"./downloads","overwrite_subtitle":false}'
python scripts/video_parser.py '{"urls":["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"],"output":"./downloads","cookie":"sid=xxx; token=yyy"}'
python scripts/video_parser.py '{"urls":["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"],"output":"./downloads","cookiesfrombrowser":"chrome"}'
python scripts/video_parser.py '{"urls":["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"],"output":"./downloads","cookiefile":"/path/to/cookies.txt"}'
python scripts/video_parser.py '{"urls":["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"],"output":"./downloads","onlysubtitle":true,"cookiefile":"/path/to/cookies.txt"}' cookiefile usage: Install the Get cookies.txt LOCALLY Chrome extension first. URL: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/get-cookiestxt-locally/cclelndahbckbenkjhflpdbgdldlbecc?pli=1 Log in to the target website, then use the extension to export cookies.txt to your local machine. Set cookiefile to that local file path, for example: python scripts/video_parser.py '{"urls":["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"],"output":"./downloads","cookiefile":"/Users/yourname/Downloads/cookies.txt"}'
ffmpeg not found: Install ffmpeg via brew install ffmpeg (macOS) or your system's package manager Faster Whisper model download fails: Models are downloaded from HuggingFace. Mainland China users need a VPN/proxy to download models. The default small model is ~75MB. Download fails: Some videos may be geo-restricted, age-gated, or unavailable. Check the video URL and try again. Cookie/auth required: Some sites need authentication. You can pass cookies via yt-dlp options if needed.
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