To generate a transcription from YouTube, you must first have automatic transcription. Using the CLI: youtube_transcript_api -https-proxy videos are age restricted, so this module won't be able to access those videos without some sort of authentication. While YouTube provides transcription services, it has its limitations. This will return a list of dictionaries looking somewhat like this: [ )Īs the proxies dict is passed on to the requests.get(.) call, it follows the format used by the requests library. The easiest way to get a transcript for a given video is to execute: from youtube_transcript_api import YouTubeTranscriptApi YouTubeTranscriptApi. You can either integrate this module into an existing application, or just use it via an CLI. If you want to use it from source, you'll have to install the dependencies manually: pip install -r requirements.txt It is recommended to install this module by using pip: pip install youtube_transcript_api It also works for automatically generated subtitles, supports translating subtitles and it does not require a headless browser, like other selenium based solutions do! Install

This is a python API which allows you to get the transcript/subtitles for a given YouTube video.

YouTube Transcript/Subtitle API (including automatically generated subtitles and subtitle translations)

Yt transcript