Python extract cc, subtitle, transcript from YouTube video - Py code example

Extract transcript using Python 

First you need to install youtube_transcript_api by command below

pip install youtube_transcript_api

Example :

from youtube_transcript_api import YouTubeTranscriptApi import datetime import io yt_id = "LkT6W6DqyuQ" str = YouTubeTranscriptApi.get_transcript(yt_id,languages=['en-US','en']) now = datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%Y%m-%d%H-%M%S-') def getText(): str = YouTubeTranscriptApi.get_transcript(yt_id,languages=['en-US','en']) now = datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%Y%m-%d%H-%M%S-') transcript = '' index = 0 for value in str: for key,val in value.items(): if key == 'text': clean_val = val clean_val = clean_val.replace("[Music]", "") clean_val = clean_val.replace(" i ", " I ") clean_val = clean_val.replace("i ", "I ") clean_val = clean_val.replace(" i' ", " I' ") clean_val = clean_val.replace("i'm", "I'm") clean_val = clean_val.replace("[ __ ]", "") if index == 1: clean_val = clean_val[0].upper()+clean_val[1:] # if index == 25: # clean_val = clean_val+'. ' # index = 0 transcript += " "+clean_val index = index + 1 file_name = "txt/text-file.txt" file = io.open(file_name, 'w', encoding="utf-8") file.write(transcript) file.close() getText()

Explanation : 

The example code above is using YouTubeTranscriptApi to grep transcript from YouTube by video id that will get result like image below

then prepare that text from each line to full statement. Finally save the file to txt/text-file.txt