Research best method for transcribing videos

[eccentricnode]

Goal: Compare && Establish API usefulness

There are a few methods for transcribing YT vids ...

• There is a youtube transcription python library youtube-transcript-api https://pypi.org/project/youtube-transcript-api/
• We can also access the youtube api directly with a token
  - (associated with this) there is a data library https://github.com/googleapis/google-api-python-client

Both these approaches are relatively valid, though I learn towards the first. It's community backed, and so if there are issues we can talk to someone. We don't have to manage auth either!

Direct transcription of videos, via the youtube API is not available. We're essentially going to get the videos captions off of a video.

What does testing the API looking like?

Testing google data api is easier.
curl 'https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=snippet&chart=mostPopular&key=YOUR_API_KEY'

The python library will require more setup, but it's simple(ish)
youtube-transcript-api https://pypi.org/project/youtube-transcript-api/

pip install youtube-transcript-api

youtube_transcript_api <first_video_id> <second_video_id> ...  

[pedrotchang]

I am interested in working on this!

[eccentricnode]

cool, please request access to the repo.

[pedrotchang]

@eccentricnode It's public, so I'll just make a pull request when ready.

Sorry it's been a crazy last week. Had a rough time with finances! 😭