youtube-transcribelisted

# YouTube Transcribe Transcribe YouTube videos using `yt-dlp` subtitle extraction. Requires `yt-dlp` installed via Homebrew (`brew install yt-dlp`). ## Workflow ### 1. Get Video Metadata ```bash yt-dlp --print title --print channel --print description --print duration_string "<URL>" ``` Prints title, channel, description, and duration on separate lines. ### 2. Download Subtitles Try manual subs first (higher quality), fall back to auto-generated: ```bash # Try manual subs first yt-dlp --write-sub --sub-lang en --skip-download --sub-format vtt -o "/tmp/yt_transcript" "<URL>" 2>&1 # If no manual subs, use auto-generated yt-dlp --write-auto-sub --sub-lang en --skip-download --sub-format vtt -o "/tmp/yt_transcript" "<URL>" ``` - `--skip-download` avoids downloading the actual video - Output: `/tmp/yt_transcript.en.vtt` - For other languages, change `--sub-lang` (e.g. `no` for Norwegian) List available languages if needed: ```bash yt-dlp --list-subs "<URL>" ``` ### 3. Clean VTT into Readable Text ```bash cat /tmp/yt_transcript.en.vtt | sed '/^$/d' | sed '/^WEBVTT/d' | sed '/^Kind:/d' | sed '/^Language:/d' | sed '/^[0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]/d' | sed '/^NOTE/d' | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g' | awk '!seen[$0]++' ``` This removes VTT headers, timestamps, NOTE lines, HTML tags, and deduplicates repeated lines. For long transcripts, pipe through `head -N` / `tail -n +N` to read in chunks. ### 4. Clean Up ```bash rm /tmp/yt_transcript.en.vtt ``` ## Notes - `yt-dlp` versio