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21 pointsneonwatty1y ago6 comments

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_trans...

github repo --> https://github.com/neonwatty/youtube_shorts_transcript_downl...

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toomuchtodo1y ago

Might find some inspiration and complement with https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

neonwattyOP1y ago

very cool! thanks - I wasn't aware of this tool.

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peter_d_sherman1y ago

I 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...

adrianco1y ago

I 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.

synthoidzeta1y ago

Do I understand correctly that this only works for shorts?