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Looking for string/s in video transcript - jehoshua - Feb-11-2020
I have just installed the python module at https://github.com/jdepoix/youtube-transcript-api
Noticed that pip3 did give some errors, however just testing it with
Quote:youtube_transcript_api <video_id> >test1.txt
It appears to suit the task at hand. If there are many videos in a youtube channel, then they can all be parsed to an output file, like . .
Quote:youtube_transcript_api <first_video_id> <second_video_id> ...
Is there an easy method with python to supply the youtube channel ID, and then parse all the video ID's , process them with the python module 'youtube-transcript-api' and search for strings within the video transcript ?
RE: Looking for string/s in video transcript - jehoshua - Feb-11-2020
I'll set this post to 'solved' just to close it off for now, as I need to do a lot more research and also obtain a Google API, etc. I found the following article helpful to know possible methods to do this:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18953499/youtube-api-to-fetch-all-videos-on-a-channel