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Turn YouTube university lectures into text for study notes

Get the transcripts of recorded university lectures on YouTube (Stanford CS229, MIT 18.06 Linear Algebra, MIT 6.006 Algorithms, Harvard CS50) from human-made captions only, with timestamps so every note can cite its moment in the video. For students, teachers and edtech builders making notes, quizzes or flashcards. Output: title, channel, duration, timestamped segments and full text.

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YouTube Captions Downloader - Transcript & Subtitles Scraper
YouTube Captions Downloader - Transcript & Subtitles Scrapertenfoldfleet/youtube-transcript-scraper
Input
Video ID
Title
Channel
+5 fields
Text
Number
Boolean
List
Object

Input

YouTube video URLs or IDs(required):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGwO_UgTS7I+3
Include auto-generated captions:false
Output format:both

Output fields

Input
Video ID
Title
Channel
Language
Auto-generated
# Segments
Transcript
Error

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