X Video Transcribe

Transcribe and summarize X/Twitter videos using bird CLI + Gemini audio transcription.

Transcribe X/Twitter video posts to text. Downloads the video, extracts audio, and uses Gemini for accurate transcription.

When to use

• User shares an X/Twitter URL containing a video
• User asks to "transcribe this tweet" or "what does this video say"
• User wants a summary of an X video

Usage

# Basic transcript
~/agent-workspace/skills/x-video-transcribe/scripts/transcribe.sh "https://x.com/user/status/123"

# With summary
~/agent-workspace/skills/x-video-transcribe/scripts/transcribe.sh "https://x.com/user/status/123" --summary

# Save to file
~/agent-workspace/skills/x-video-transcribe/scripts/transcribe.sh "https://x.com/user/status/123" --summary --output /tmp/transcript.md

Pipeline

1. bird CLI — Fetches tweet JSON, extracts video URL
2. curl — Downloads the video MP4
3. ffmpeg — Extracts audio as MP3 (much smaller than video)
4. Gemini API — Uploads audio, transcribes with gemini-2.0-flash

Requirements

• bird CLI with auth (cookies in ~/agent-workspace/secrets/bird.env)
• ffmpeg
• GEMINI_API_KEY environment variable

Environment

Variable	Default	Description
GEMINI_API_KEY	(required)	Google Gemini API key
BIRD_ENV	~/agent-workspace/secrets/bird.env	Path to bird credentials
GEMINI_MODEL	gemini-2.0-flash	Gemini model for transcription