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Timed YouTube video transcripts in .txt and .pdf
5 points by cristyg0101 4 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment
hello people,

I want to share with you the tool Im working on at the moment that does exactly what you see in the title, something pretty simple, want feedback please.

have a good day :)

link: https://pelicantools.app/tools/youtube-to-transcript

 help



Why a closed source webpage over something unix-y like: yt-dlp + rendering tool, for example

    yt-dlp --skip-download --write-sub --write-auto-sub --sub-lang en --sub-format json3 -o transcript <video>

    cue eval json: transcript.en.json3 -e 'strings.Join(list.FlattenN([for _,evt in events if evt.segs != _|_ for _,s in evt.segs { s.utf8} ],2),"")' --out text > transcript.en.txt
Bonus with yt-dlp is that it supports a lot more than YT



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