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About every video on YouTube has a transcript, usually a button at the bottom of the description.
by cma 1y ago
About every video on YouTube has a transcript, usually a button at the bottom of the description.
- lproven 1y agoNo help. It's video speed. I can read at several thousand words a minute. So I need the whole transcript in one shot. Then I can read it in 10 or 15 minutes or so, and decide if it's worth watching a 2 hour plus video. The answer is almost always "no".
- veggieroll 1y agoUse yt-dlp to download the transcript.
- zahlman 1y agoA few lines of Javascript in the console can copy that to the clipboard for you. Maybe someone's packaged that up already. (It's on my todo list to look around...)
- insin 1y agoControl Panel for YouTube [1] has an option to add a new "Download" item to the menu in the video Transcript box (which I've just noticed is currently broken, as YouTube must have changed the implementation again recently) Here's a fixed version [2] - run this when the transcript is open and loaded. [1] https://soitis.dev/control-panel-for-youtube https://soitis.dev/control-panel-for-youtube [2] https://gist.github.com/insin/cb938324866c511066bcabe230b6a625 https://gist.github.com/insin/cb938324866c511066bcabe230b6a6...
- cma 1y agoNot the closed caption button. In the bottom of the description there is "show transcript" which gives a scrollable transcript.
- antonvs 1y agoHe’s too busy reading thousands of words a minute to actually understand any of them.
- user____name 1y agoI was able to go through War and Peace in 20 minutes. It’s about Russia.
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- layer8 1y agohttps://www.youtube-transcript.io/videos?id=wo84LFzx5nI https://www.youtube-transcript.io/videos?id=wo84LFzx5nI
- kristianp 1y agoI imagine the whisper transcript has less errors.