Transcript and comments of a YouTube video
Get the full transcript of a YouTube video and its comments in one run. The transcript comes back with language and timestamps; each comment arrives as its own row with author, likes and reply count. Useful for audience research, sentiment analysis and content ideas. Set how many comments to fetch per video. Example input: Rick Astley, Never Gonna Give You Up.
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