YouTube Transcript

Fetch transcripts from YouTube videos.

Setup

cd {baseDir}
npm install

Usage

{baseDir}/transcript.js <video-id-or-url>

Accepts video ID or full URL:

• EBw7gsDPAYQ
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBw7gsDPAYQ
• https://youtu.be/EBw7gsDPAYQ

Output

Timestamped transcript entries:

[0:00] All right. So, I got this UniFi Theta
[0:15] I took the camera out, painted it
[1:23] And here's the final result

Notes

• Requires the video to have captions/transcripts available
• Works with auto-generated and manual transcripts