youtube-transcript

To fetch a YouTube video transcript as JSON, provide the video ID or URL to the script. The tool returns a JSON payload containing video_id, title, author, full_text, and transcript entries for research and archival documentation.

Fetching YouTube transcripts fails when direct requests trigger YouTube's cloud IP blocks. This tool bypasses those restrictions by routing requests through a residential IP proxy, ensuring reliable access to transcript data.

Yes, you can summarize YouTube transcripts and extract the full text. The tool fetches the transcript and optionally summarizes it, returning the complete text alongside metadata within a structured JSON response.

A residential IP proxy is required to bypass YouTube's cloud IP blocks when extracting transcripts across different languages. The tool supports language selection and uses the proxy to ensure successful transcription retrieval.

The best way to get video metadata and transcript entries together is running the fetch script with a video URL. It outputs a unified JSON payload containing the video_id, title, author, full_text, and structured transcript data.

To retrieve transcripts from YouTube videos using a Python script, execute the fetch_transcript.py file with the video URL and optional language parameters. It uses the youtube_transcript_api to return structured JSON data.