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How to Get YouTube Video Transcripts

What's this blog post about?

The text provides a detailed tutorial on how to build a command line tool in Python 3 that downloads YouTube videos, extracts their transcriptions using the AssemblyAI API, and saves them as text files. It covers prerequisites such as installing necessary libraries like youtube-dl, ffmpeg, and click, setting up an AssemblyAI account to obtain an API key, and creating a configuration file for storing the AssemblyAI API key. The tutorial then guides users through writing Python code to download YouTube videos, upload their audio files to the AssemblyAI server, transcribe them, and finally retrieve the transcriptions. It also includes a bonus round where all these steps are combined into one command-line function.

Company
AssemblyAI

Date published
July 13, 2021

Author(s)
Yujian Tang

Word count
1797

Hacker News points
2

Language
English


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