youtube-to-text

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Extract

convertYoutubeToText()

function convertYoutubeToText(videoUrl: string, options?: object): object;

Defined in: extractor/url-to-content/youtube-to-text.js:19

Fetch youtube.com video's webpage HTML for embedded transcript. If blocked, use scraper of alternative sites providing transcripts.

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
videoUrl	string
options?	{ addTimestamps: boolean; timeout: boolean; }
options.addTimestamps?	boolean	default=true - true to return timestamps, default true
options.timeout?	boolean	default=5 - http request timeout

Returns

object

where content is the full text of the transcript, timestamps is a string of comma-separated [characterIndex, timeSeconds] pairs, and word_count is the number of words in the transcript.

Name	Type	Defined in
content	string	extractor/url-to-content/youtube-to-text.js:12
timestamps	string	extractor/url-to-content/youtube-to-text.js:12
word_count	number	extractor/url-to-content/youtube-to-text.js:12

Author

ai-research-agent (2024)

Other

fetchViaYoutubeToTranscriptCom()

function fetchViaYoutubeToTranscriptCom(videoId: any, options: object): any;

Defined in: extractor/url-to-content/youtube-to-text.js:153

Fetch-based scraper of youtubetotranscript.com

Parameters

Parameter	Type
videoId	any
options	{ }

Returns

any

content, timestamps - where content is the full text of the transcript, and timestamps is an array of [characterIndex, timeSeconds]