This repository aims to get YouTube video transcriptions through its id. The repository infrastructure was thought to simplify project setup and usage. The main idea here is to let you get your desired video transcription in a few clicks, in an easy "plug in and play" process. In this regard, it doesn't need YouTube API tokens or complex configurations. Instead of YouTube API, it uses youtube-transcript-api Python library. Local repo clone or python environment configuration isn't necessary, although they could be done, being possible to use GitHub Actions to save the wanted YouTube video transcription into a txt file.

• Access the public Get YouTube Transcription GitHub Repository.

• Create a new repository from the repo template option (green button at the middle right of the page):

• Allow all GitHub actions to be used:

• Allow GitHub actions to read and write in your brand new repository (at the very end of the page shown above):

• Get the wanted YouTube video link, with its id:

• Open an issue on your brand new repository, and use the wanted YouTube video link, with its id, as your new GitHub issue title:

• Find your transcription in the transcripts folder (it could take one minute¹):

• The new txt file created in the transcripts folder will have the pattern name yyyymmaahhmm_videoId_videoName.txt

• If the passed video id doesn't exist the script will create a new txt file in the transcripts folder with the pattern name yyyymmaahhmm_videoId_not_found.txt

• The script will get manually created and auto-generated transcripts. By default the youtube-transcript-api Python library picks manually created transcripts over automatically created ones. Both of them will be presented in the txt file if presented.

• Before the transcripts the txt file will present the language and if the transcription is manually created or auto-generated.

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• Check out the completed txt file to find all transcriptions found.

Click in the picture below to watch a short YouTube video explained all the repo functionalities and configuration.

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