Turn YouTube videos into plain-text transcripts
Returns the full transcript of each video as one block of plain text, with the video title, channel, duration and the language that was used. Prefers human captions and falls back to auto-generated ones. Paste in any number of video URLs or IDs to build summaries, blog posts, subtitles or a searchable archive. Switch the format to SRT or VTT for subtitle files.
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