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youtube-transcript-extraction

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Extract YouTube transcripts in extensions.

Software Engineering#extension#captions#youtube#xml#transcripts#language-selection
Authorbermudi
Version1.0.0
Installs0

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What problem does it solve?

This skill enables reliable extraction of YouTube video transcripts directly within browser extensions, covering discovery, language selection, and formatted text.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Fresh captions via Android client API to avoid expired baseUrls.
  • Language selection with robust fallbacks to choose the best track across languages.
  • XML parsing with proper entity decoding to produce clean, timestamped transcripts.
  • Use cases include embedding transcripts in extensions, translating captions, and enabling searchable video transcripts.

Quick Start

Fetch the freshest YouTube transcript for a target video and format it into timestamped segments.

Dependency Matrix

Required Modules

None required

Components

Standard package

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Name: youtube-transcript-extraction
Download link: https://github.com/bermudi/skills/archive/main.zip#youtube-transcript-extraction

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