yt-transcripts

Get transcripts/captions for a given YouTube video using REST API. See it live.

For API implementation example, see here.

Available parameters are:

• v - a Youtube video ID that will be used to find transcripts (example: jNQXAC9IVRw), this is required
• list - if it set to true, will return a list of transcripts available for a given video in v param, other params will be ignored
• lang - language code to search for, multiple languages are also allowed (example: es, ar, en,fr,ja), if you are not sure, use list parameter to see available languages code, by default, this will look for English (en), if English not found, then first available language (alphabetically) will be used
• tl - if a language code is given, this will automatically translated into the requested language
• type - by default, this will look for manually created transcript then auto-generated transcript, but you can get only manual or generated transcripts using this parameter
• key- search and only returns text that contains the requested string, as opposed to returns all text in the transcript
• cs - set this parameter to true to make search case sensitive
• marker - string that used as a marker before and after key found in text, you can also use different markers for before and after key using _$_, for example <mark>_$_</mark>
• size - how much maximum text is returned, if not set, then return all text found
• page - the requested page based on the value of size parameter, if parameter size isn't exist, this will be ignored, page starts at 1

Development

Make sure you have Python, pip, Node and npm installed on your machine.

# Clone this repository and then move into that directory
git clone https://github.com/daflh/yt-transcripts.git
cd yt-transcripts

# Install required dependency for Python
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Install Vercel CLI globally using npm
npm install -g vercel

vercel login # Login to your vercel account
vercel # Link this directory to your Vercel project
vercel dev # Start the development server