YouTube Transcript API

CLI/Python API to fetch a YouTube video's transcript, including auto-generated captions, no API key needed.

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A Python and CLI tool that retrieves transcripts and subtitles for YouTube videos, including automatically generated captions and optional translation, without requiring an API key or a headless browser. It addresses the need to extract many captions at scale—useful for developers and researchers working with YouTube transcript data—and can be self-hosted; it does not work for videos where the uploader has disabled captions.

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