youtube-transcript-api

I tried it with a Russian YT video and it did not work: Starting process... Processing URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtkgT6R2HtA Error: Failed to get transcript: Could not retrieve a transcript for the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtkgT6R2HtA! This is most likely caused by: No transcripts were found for any of the requested language codes: ['en'] For this video (MtkgT6R2HtA) transcripts are available in the following languages: (MANUALLY CREATED) None (GENERATED) - ru ("Russian (auto-generated)")[TRANSLATABLE] (TRANSLATION LANGUAGES) - en ("English") If you are sure that the described cause is not responsible for this error and that a transcript should be retrievable, please create an issue at https://github.com/jdepoix/youtube-transcript-api/issues. Please add which version of youtube_transcript_api you are using and p

> Doesn't YouTube do this for you automatically these days within a day or so? Oh yeah, we do a check first and use youtube-transcript-api if there's an automatic one available: https://github.com/jdepoix/youtube-transcript-api The tool usually detects them within like ~5 mins of being uploaded though, so usually none are available yet. Then it'll send the summaries to our internal Slack channel for our editors, in case there's anything interesting to 'follow up on' from the meeting. Probably would be a good idea to add a delay to it and wait for the automatic ones though :)

There's a tool that uses YouTube's unofficial APIs to get them if they're available: https://github.com/jdepoix/youtube-transcript-api For our internal tool that transcribes local city council meetings on YouTube (often 1-3 hours long), we found that these automatic ones were never available though. (Our tool usually 'processes' the videos within ~5-30 mins of being uploaded, so that's also why none are probably available 'officially' yet.) So we use yt-dlp to download the highest quality audio and then process them with whisper via Groq, which is way cheaper (~$0.02-0.04/hr with Groq compared to $0.36/hr via OpenAI's API.) Sometimes groq errors out so there's built-in support for Replicate and Deepgram as well. We run yt-dlp on our remote Linode server and I have a Python script I created that will automatically login to YouTube with a "

You can pull YouTube transcripts directly with a tool like this: https://youtubetranscript.com/ This can be done programmatically with YouTube Transcript API [0] But you may get IP blocked if you do it a lot so you can use a Tor proxy [1]. Afterwards, you can just cmd/ctrl+f through it or throw it at an LLM. [0] https://github.com/jdepoix/youtube-transcript-api [1] https://github.com/rinvii/yt-transcript

Checking online, this [1] appears to be one of the most heavily referenced on StackOverflow for downloading both user entered and automatically generated transcripts. (Python based) [1] https://github.com/jdepoix/youtube-transcript-api Notably, Google really needs to have an obvious API endpoint for this kind of call. If 1000's of programmers are all rolling their own implementation, there's probably a huge number that constantly download the full video and transcribe in data harvesting. Kind of surprised honestly it's taken this long for Youtube to fall prey to massive data harvesting campaigns. From this article [2] and this paper on Youtube data statistics [3] there are ~14,000,000,000 videos on Youtube with a mean length of 615 seconds (~10 minutes). You'd think people would be interested in: 8,610,000,000,000 seconds 143,500,00

> What are the parts of the brain that become de-synchronized in the ADHD brain? >> The default mode network and the task networks become de-synchronized in the ADHD brain. > What are the three parts of the brain that become de-synchronized in the ADHD brain? >> The default mode network, the task networks, and the dopamine circuits. From https://youtu.be/hFL6qRIJZ_Y?t=1714: > An area called the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex ... the posterior cingulate cortex, and ... the lateral parietal lobe ... these are three brain areas that normally are synchronized in their activities ... that's how it is in a typical person. In a person with ADHD ... these brain areas are not playing well with each other. I wonder if part of the problem might be the usage of text to speech. Did you consider scraping the transcriptions instead? e.g. with https://gi