jdepoix / youtube-transcript-api

This is a python API which allows you to get the transcript/subtitles for a given YouTube video. It also works for automatically generated subtitles and it does not require an API key nor a headless browser, like other selenium based solutions do!

Date Created 2018-04-20 (6 years ago)

Commits 338 (last one 6 days ago)

Stargazers 3,621 (27 this week)

Watchers 37 (0 this week)

Forks 421

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RepositoryStats indexes 631,351 repositories, of these jdepoix/youtube-transcript-api is ranked #14,274 (98th percentile) for total stargazers, and #57,780 for total watchers. Github reports the primary language for this repository as Python, for repositories using this language it is ranked #2,223/128,766.

jdepoix/youtube-transcript-api is also tagged with popular topics, for these it's ranked: python (#997/23380), cli (#259/4377), youtube (#53/1129), asr (#15/236)

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jdepoix/youtube-transcript-api has 1 open pull request on Github, 56 pull requests have been merged over the lifetime of the repository.

Github issues are enabled, there are 13 open issues and 273 closed issues.

There have been 27 releases, the latest one was published on 2025-03-17 (7 days ago) with the name v1.0.2.

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asr cli python youtube captions subtitle subtitles transcript transcripts youtube-api youtube-asr youtube-video youtube-captions youtube-subtitles youtube-transcript youtube-transcripts translating-transcripts

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updated: 2025-03-24 @ 06:07am, id: 130369089 / R_kgDOB8VGQQ