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Getting YouTube auto-transcript from API?

Is it possible to pull the auto (non-user) generated video transcripts from any of the YouTube APIs?

Solution

  • You may refer with this thread: How to get "transcript" in youtube-api v3

    If you're authenticating with oAuth2, you could do a quick call to this feed:

    http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/[VIDEOID]/captiondata/[CAPTIONTRACKID]

    to get the data you want. To retrieve a list of possible caption track IDs with v2 of the API, you access this feed:

    https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/[VIDEOID]/captions

    That feed request also accepts some optional parameters, including language, max-results, etc. For more details, along with a sample that shows the returned format of the caption track list, see the documentation at https://developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_protocol_captions#Retrieve_Caption_Set

    Also, here are some references which migh help: