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youtube-transcript

Fetch transcripts from YouTube videos for summarization and analysis.

Published by badlogic ↗badlogic/pi-skills

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Use youtube-transcript to Fetch and return the timestamped transcript for [YouTube video URL or ID].

Required inputs

  • [YouTube video URL or ID]

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name: youtube-transcriptdescription: Fetch transcripts from YouTube videos for summarization and analysis.

YouTube Transcript

Fetch transcripts from YouTube videos.

Setup

cd {baseDir}
npm install

Usage

{baseDir}/transcript.js <video-id-or-url>

Accepts video ID or full URL:

  • EBw7gsDPAYQ
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBw7gsDPAYQ
  • https://youtu.be/EBw7gsDPAYQ

Output

Timestamped transcript entries:

[0:00] All right. So, I got this UniFi Theta
[0:15] I took the camera out, painted it
[1:23] And here's the final result

Notes

  • Requires the video to have captions/transcripts available
  • Works with auto-generated and manual transcripts