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@JimmySadek JimmySadek released this 05 Sep 19:00
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YouTube Fetcher v1.2.0 makes everyday capture safer and works better across languages, while keeping the portable, no-API-key workflow.

Improvements

  • Protect existing Markdown, JSON, SRT, plain-text, and WebVTT files. Refresh an existing default note in place and preserve its permissions.
  • Select captions using ordered language preferences, regional variants, --lang auto, or --strict-lang.
  • Request YouTube machine translation explicitly with --translate, with source language and translation provenance recorded in Markdown.
  • Jump to video moments through linked timestamps and chapters. Export plain text with --format txt and WebVTT with --format vtt.
  • Bound network requests, skip optional metadata with --no-metadata, and report useful access, timeout, translation, and filesystem errors.
  • Improve isolated setup, safe agent behavior, Unicode filenames/output, and cross-platform regression coverage.

Upgrade notes

  • Existing destinations now return exit code 3 in every format and in interactive terminals. Use --force only when you intend to replace the entire file, including annotations.
  • --format text remains Markdown for compatibility; use --format txt for plain text.
  • New-file publication is atomic on filesystems supporting hard links. Other filesystems use exclusive creation, which preserves existing files but can expose a new file while it is being written.
  • YouTube caption access and translation availability still depend on the video and network. No audio download, browser-cookie access, or paid service is added.

Install

npx skills add JimmySadek/youtube-fetcher-to-markdown

See the README for isolated Python setup and the complete command reference.

Verification

61 regression tests; GitHub CI on Linux (Python 3.8 and 3.14), Windows (3.13), and macOS (3.13); local compatibility through Python 3.14 and the minimum supported caption-library version; Skills CLI 1.5.23 isolated installation; live full-video capture and Japanese-to-English translation.

Release pull request: #4

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