YouTube Chapter Generator from Transcripts

Extracts YouTube video transcripts via the youtube-transcript-api Python library and generates semantic chapter markers. Uses sentence-transformers for topic segmentation and formats chapter timestamps for YouTube description metadata compliance.

Prerequisites

Google account, Google Cloud project, YouTube Data API v3 enabled, and OAuth 2.0 credentials or an API key as supported

Installation

Requirements and caveats from upstream:

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• Python

Basic usage or getting-started notes:

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• Source: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3

Documentation

• https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3

Source

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