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Get YouTube video transcript into a text file
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from youtube_transcript_api import YouTubeTranscriptApi
# https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/python-downloading-captions-from-youtube/
srt = YouTubeTranscriptApi.get_transcript("_6YwF1OkbVU")
with open("subtitles.txt", "w") as f:
for i in srt:
f.write("{}\n".format(i.get('text')))
# some improvements to make in future
# 1. get name of video and put that as the filename instead of subtitles.txt
# 2. accept as an argument the video id, instead of replacing the hard-coded _6YwF10kbVU manually
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