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YouTube: Working with Auto-generated Transcripts
Finding the Transcript Feature
Youtube has a hidden transcript feature. Click on the 3 dots to the lower right of the video:
- above the “Subscribe” button and
- to the right of the “Save” button
Transcript Button
When you click on the 3 dots, click “Open Transcript” it will pull up the Transcript to the right of the video.
Download Transcripts
These transcripts can be downloaded with a python program:youtube-dl –skip-download –write-auto-sub https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKvFlSedpNI
Cleanup Transcripts
There is a site that provides a nice UI to make it easier to cleanup the generated transcript.
Parse VVT Formatted Transcripts
The vtt format can be parsed by the webvtt.py python program:
webvtt-py 0.4.2
webvtt-py is a Python module for reading/writing WebVTT caption files. It also features caption segmentation useful when captioning HLS videos.
Requires Python 3.4+.
Documentation is available at http://webvtt-py.readthedocs.io.
Installation
$ pip install webvtt-pyUsage
import webvtt for caption in webvtt.read('captions.vtt'): print(caption.start) print(caption.end) print(caption.text)