Youtube Transcript

Retrieve transcript of any youtube video.

Documentation

Install

cargo install youtube-transcript

Usage:

as Commandline

renders transcript in text format / json format. By default it's text.

``` bash youtube-transcript https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcYjXbSJBN8

start at: 639ms for duration 2s

welcome back

start at: 2s for duration 4s

here we go again great to see you and

... ... ```

For json ``` bash youtube-transcript --format json https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcYjXbSJBN8

{ "transcripts": [ { "text": "Hey, how's it going Dave 2d here?", "start": { "secs": 0, "nanos": 0 }, "duration": { "secs": 1, "nanos": 539999962 } }, { "text": "This is a Microsoft Surface go and when they first announced it I was interested in it", "start": { "secs": 1, "nanos": 539999962 }, "duration": { "secs": 4, "nanos": 159999847 } } ... ... ] } ... ... ```

as Library

youtube-transcript is an async library and below is the example to use in an applicatio: ``` rust let link:&str="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcYjXbSJBN8";

Create a youtube instance from builder.

let youtube_loader:Youtube = YoutubeBuilder::default().build();

Get the transcript by loading youtube url.

let transcript:Transcript=youtube_loader.transcript(link).await?; ```

Other tools

Inspired from: youtube-transcript-api