Caption Extractor

Explanation

This script is used to extract the captions from each video. The results of this can be found here.

The Playlist

This the YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkVbIsAWN2lsHdY7ldAAgtJug50pRNQv0

Usage

Docker - official image

docker run -t \
--env CAPTIONS_REPO=github.com/[username]/youtube-captions.git \
--env GIT_USERNAME=[username] \
--env GIT_TOKEN=[git_token] \
--env GIT_EMAIL=[email] \
--env GOOGLE_API_KEY=[google_api_key] \
repairmanual/caption-extractor:latest

Local

Script

Set env vars:

CAPTIONS_REPO=https://github.com/marosoft/youtube-captions.git
REPO_PATH=/tmp/out
GOOGLE_API_KEY=[YOUR_API_KEY]

Invoke the script: ./process-new-videos.sh

Docker

Build image:

docker build -t caption-extractor .

Run:

docker run -t \
--env CAPTIONS_REPO=github.com/[username]/youtube-captions.git \
--env GIT_USERNAME=[username] \
--env GIT_TOKEN=[git_token] \
--env GIT_EMAIL=[email] \
--env GOOGLE_API_KEY=[google_api_key] \
caption-extractor

Dev Setup

ENV setup

1. Create a virtual environment (e.g. python -m venv .env)
2. Activate the virtual environment (source .env/bin/activate)
3. pip install -r requirements.txt

Google API key

It is used to retrieve the list of videos from the playlist. Obtain the API key by using Google Developer Console.

It allows 10000 units per day. https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/getting-started#quota https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/playlistItems/list

export GOOGLE_API_KEY=[YOUR_API_KEY]

Execution

python process-new-videos.py -p PLkVbIsAWN2lsHdY7ldAAgtJug50pRNQv0 -o out