Capture YouTube transcripts without browser automation using YouTube Transcript API

Fetch manual or auto-generated YouTube subtitles, including translations, without Selenium or API keys before summarization, extraction, or quote-checking.

Prerequisites

Python, YouTube video ID

Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:

• pip install youtube-transcript-api

Requirements and caveats from upstream:

• <img src="https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/youtube-transcript-api.svg" alt="Supported Python Versions">
• This is a python API which allows you to retrieve the transcript/subtitles for a given YouTube video. It also works for automatically generated subtitles, supports translating subtitles and it does not require a headl...
• python

Basic usage or getting-started notes:

• It is recommended to install this module by using pip:

• You can either integrate this module into an existing application or just use it via a CLI.

• API

• Source: https://github.com/jdepoix/youtube-transcript-api

• Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jdepoix/youtube-transcript-api/HEAD/README.md

Documentation

• https://github.com/jdepoix/youtube-transcript-api

Source

• Agent Skill Exchange