Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: youtube_transcript_api
Version: 0.1.4
Summary: This is an python API which allows you to get the transcripts/subtitles for a given YouTube video. It also works for automatically generated subtitles and it does not require a headless browser, like other selenium based solutions do!
Home-page: https://github.com/jdepoix/youtube-transcript-api
Author: Jonas Depoix
Author-email: jonas.depoix@web.de
License: UNKNOWN
Description: # YouTube Transcript/Subtitle API (including automatically generated subtitles)
        
        This is an python API which allows you to get the transcripts/subtitles for a given YouTube video. It also works for automatically generated subtitles and it does not require a headless browser, like other selenium based solutions do!
        
        ## Install
        
        It is recommended to [install this module by using pip](https://pypi.org/project/youtube-transcript-api/):
        
        ```
        pip install youtube_transcript_api
        ```
        
        If you want to use it from source, you'll have to install the dependencies manually:
        
        ```
        pip install -r requirements.txt
        ```
        
        ## How to use it
        
        You could either integrate this module into an existing application, or just use it via an CLI
        
        ### In code
        
        To get a transcript for a given video you can do:
        
        ```python
        from youtube_transcript_api import YouTubeTranscriptApi
        
        YouTubeTranscriptApi.get_transcript(video_id)
        ```
        
        This will return a list of dictionaries looking somewhat like this:
        
        ```python
        [
            {
                'text': 'Hey there',
                'start': 7.58,
                'duration': 6.13
            },
            {
                'text': 'how are you',
                'start': 14.08,
                'duration': 7.58
            },
            # ...
        ]
        ```
        
        You can also add the `languages` param if you want to make sure the transcripts are retrieved in your desired language (it usually defaults to english).
        
        ```python
        YouTubeTranscriptApi.get_transcripts(video_ids, languages=['de', 'en'])
        ```
        
        It's a list of language codes in a descending priority. In this example it will first try to fetch the german transcript (`'de'`) and then fetch the english transcript (`'en'`) if it fails to do so. As I can't provide a complete list of all working language codes with full certainty, you may have to play around with the language codes a bit, to find the one which is working for you!
        
        To get transcripts for a list fo video ids you can call:
        
        ```python
        YouTubeTranscriptApi.get_transcripts(video_ids, languages=['de', 'en'])
        ```
        
        `languages` also is optional here.
        
        ### CLI
        
        Execute the CLI script using the video ids as parameters and the results will be printed out to the command line:
        
        ```
        youtube_transcript_api <first_video_id> <second_video_id> ...
        ```
        
        The CLI also gives you the option to provide a list of preferred languages:
        
        ```
        youtube_transcript_api <first_video_id> <second_video_id> ... --languages de en
        ```
        
        If you would prefer to write it into a file or pipe it into another application, you can also output the results as json using the following line:
        
        ```
        youtube_transcript_api <first_video_id> <second_video_id> ... --languages de en --json > transcripts.json
        ```
        
        ### Proxy
        
        You can pass a proxy to use during the network requests
        
        Code:
        ```python
        from youtube_transcript_api import YouTubeTranscriptApi
        
        YouTubeTranscriptApi.get_transcript(video_id, proxy={"http": "http://user:pass@domain:port", "https": "https://user:pass@domain:port"})
        
        ```
        
        CLI:
        ```
        youtube_transcript_api <first_video_id> <second_video_id> --http-proxy http://user:pass@domain:port --https-proxy https://user:pass@domain:port
        ```
        
        Find out more about using proxies and the type of proxies you can use here: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/advanced/#proxies
        
        ## Warning
        
        This code uses an undocumented part of the YouTube API, which is called by the YouTube web-client. So there is no guarantee that it won't stop working tomorrow, if they change how things work. I will however do my best to make things working again as soon as possible if that happens. So if it stops working, let me know!
Keywords: youtube-api subtitles youtube transcripts transcript subtitle youtube-subtitles youtube-transcripts cli
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
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