YouTube Transcript Downloader
Description
This project is a Python script built in Tkinter to quickly transcribe and download YouTube video transcripts. Intended to use output for AI models.
Features
- Quickly turn YouTube videos into a downloadable text file, useful for plugging into AI chatbots like ChatGPT
- Compatible with a variety of URL formats including playlists, shorts, embeds, etc.
- Download simple raw text transcripts or include timestamps for extra context
Technologies Used
This project was built purely with Python, using Tkinter for the interface. The youtube-transcript-api is used to generate the transcript from the YouTube URL.
Development Process & Motivation
When working with AI chatbots I needed a way to quickly analyze videos. I found many video transcript sites online but they were either slow due to network requests or would make unnecessary AI summaries, and I really just needed raw text. I figured it would be relatively simple to make my own once I found the youtube-transcript-api.
Future Plans & Improvements
This is just meant to be a simple lightweight script to turn YouTube videos into text, so I don't want to add features that may not be necessary. I might upgrade the UI later to a more aesthetic option than Tkinter, but I also like the simplicity. Here's the repo if anyone is interested in building on it.
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