jdepoix / youtube-transcript-api
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This is a python API which allows you to get the transcript/subtitles for a given YouTube video. It also works for automatically generated subtitles and it does not require an API key nor a headless browser, like other selenium based solutions do!
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LanguagePython
LicenseMIT
Created2018-04-20 (8y ago)
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