Capture Youtube Transcripts Without Browser Automation Using Youtube Transcript Api

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name: "Capture YouTube transcripts without browser automation using YouTube Transcript API"
slug: "capture-youtube-transcripts-without-browser-automation-using-youtube-transcript-api"
description: "Fetch manual or auto-generated YouTube subtitles, including translations, without Selenium or API keys before summarization, extraction, or quote-checking."
github_stars: 7352
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/jdepoix/youtube-transcript-api"
author: "jdepoix"
publisher_type: "open_source_project"
category: "Media & Transcription"
framework: "Multi-Framework"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "jdepoix/youtube-transcript-api"
  github_stars: 7352
---

# Capture YouTube transcripts without browser automation using YouTube Transcript API

Fetch manual or auto-generated YouTube subtitles, including translations, without Selenium or API keys before summarization, extraction, or quote-checking.

## Prerequisites

Python, YouTube video ID

## Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- pip install youtube-transcript-api

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- <img src="https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/youtube-transcript-api.svg" alt="Supported Python Versions">
- This is a python API which allows you to retrieve the transcript/subtitles for a given YouTube video. It also works for automatically generated subtitles, supports translating subtitles and it does not require a headl...
- python

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- It is recommended to [install this module by using pip](https://pypi.org/project/youtube-transcript-api/):
- You can either integrate this module [into an existing application](#api) or just use it via a [CLI](#cli).
- ## API

- Source: https://github.com/jdepoix/youtube-transcript-api
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jdepoix/youtube-transcript-api/HEAD/README.md

## Documentation

- https://github.com/jdepoix/youtube-transcript-api

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/capture-youtube-transcripts-without-browser-automation-using-youtube-transcript-api/)