yt-dlp-transcript

A handy wrapper for yt-dlp to download transcripts for YouTube videos.

Usage

uvx yt-dlp-transcript https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

or:

pip install yt-dlp-transcript
yt-dlp-transcript https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Options:

> yt-dlp-transcript -h
usage: yt-dlp-transcript [-h] [-l LANGUAGE] [-v] url

positional arguments:
  url                   Youtube URL

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -l LANGUAGE, --language LANGUAGE
                        subtitles language (default: en)
  -v, --verbose         verbose mode (default: False)

Usage in Python code

from yt_dlp_transcript import yt_dlp_transcript
print(yt_dlp_transcript("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"))