YouTube Transcript with Python (YouTube Transcript API)

YouTube Transcript API Module allows you to easily get the text transcript of a YouTube video with timestamp.

NOTE: The module only accepts the Video ID so we run 2 replace methods to remove the rest of the URL to make it easier to copy/paste a YouTube video into the script.

Install Python Module

pip3 install youtube-transcript-api

yt-transcript.py

from youtube_transcript_api import YouTubeTranscriptApi

url = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQCnmsyl61Q"
print(url)

video_id = url.replace("https://youtu.be/", "")
video_id = url.replace("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=", "")
print(video_id)

transcript = YouTubeTranscriptApi.get_transcript(video_id)

print(transcript)

output=""
for x in transcript:
  sentence = x['text']
  output += f' {sentence}\n'

print(output)
Code language: PHP (php)

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