youtube-transcript

To extract a YouTube transcript, provide the video URL or ID to the script. It uses the youtube-transcript-api to fetch and return a clean, unmodified text transcript, saving to a video-ID-transcript.txt file by default.

Yes, you can get YouTube transcripts with timestamps. The script supports an optional timestamps parameter to retrieve time-aligned transcripts alongside the original text from the video.

Yes, the youtube-transcript-api works with youtu.be and embed URLs. The script automatically detects and handles multiple URL formats, including watch?v=, youtu.be/, and embed links, to retrieve the transcript.

The best way to get captions from YouTube videos without manual subtitles is using an automated transcript extractor. This script applies to videos with or without captions to retrieve available text.

Yes, there are limitations when extracting transcripts from private YouTube videos. The youtube-transcript-api relies on public accessibility to retrieve caption data, meaning private or restricted videos will fail.