agentskillexchange Capture YouTube transcripts without browser automation using YouTube Transcript API
Fetch manual or auto-generated YouTube subtitles, including translations, without Selenium or API keys before summarization, extraction, or quote-checking.
Prerequisites
Python, YouTube video ID
Installation
Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- pip install youtube-transcript-api
Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- This is a python API which allows you to retrieve the transcript/subtitles for a given YouTube video. It also works for automatically generated subtitles, supports translating subtitles and it does not require a headl...
- python
Basic usage or getting-started notes:
It is recommended to install this module by using pip:
You can either integrate this module into an existing application or just use it via a CLI.
API
Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jdepoix/youtube-transcript-api/HEAD/README.md