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Show HN: A simple app for downloading YouTube transcripts in bulk
After hearing several youtubers I follow describe ardiuous manual processes for downloading youtube transcripts, I made a simple app to help anyone download transcripts in bulk.
Drag and drop a text file with one url per line, or enter urls manually.
hf space demo --> https://huggingface.co/spaces/neonwatty/youtube_shorts_transcript_downloader https://huggingface.co/spaces/neonwatty/youtube_shorts_trans...
github repo --> https://github.com/neonwatty/youtube_shorts_transcript_downloader https://github.com/neonwatty/youtube_shorts_transcript_downl...
- synthoidzeta 2y agoDo I understand correctly that this only works for shorts?
- neonwatty 2y agoYes at present.
- toomuchtodo 2y agoMight find some inspiration and complement with https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp Potentially related: https://old.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/comments/15fcrmd/transcript_extract_from_youtube_videos_ytdlp/ https://old.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/comments/15fcrmd/transcri...
- neonwatty 2y agovery cool! thanks - I wasn't aware of this tool.
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- adrianco 2y agoI tried to do this a few months ago (for videos not shorts) and found that YouTube will only let you download transcripts for your own uploads. You have to authenticate to the API. Also the transcripts aren’t that great. I ended up downloading the video and running whisper on it.
- peter_d_sherman 2y agoI would love a tool (or tools) that would let me: 1) Search all of the text transcripts for all of the videos for a given channel/creator; 2) Download all of the text transcripts for all of the videos for a given channel/creator; Ideally without authentication/login... You know, like the way plain old Google search works...