Do you need a transcription for whatever reason? Great... Here's a step by step way to create a formatted transcript without hassle
- Upload your video to YouTube (Private or Unlisted)
- Wait for it to do checks (If copyright's an issue it'll automatically become private or unviewable by the public, if not ad revenue being stolen)
- View the video on YouTube (Not Studio or whatever)
- Check the about section of the video if you do not see "view transcript" then wait and check your subtitle settings in YouTube Studio
- Once you see the transcript go to the very bottom of the transcription (Ensure you toggle on time stamps)
- Click & Drag (upwards) and highlight all of the transcript
- press ctrl C and copy to a txt file name it transcript.txt
- Ensure you have python installed (I'm not gonna walk you through this)
- Change the directories for your output and input
- Run the script YTF.py in CMD, Powershell, VSCODE or whatever you're using. I use VSCODE with python so I just hit CTRL F5 and call it a day but CLI users run: python YTF.py
Errors:
- If you get error: python is not a bash command or whatever and you're on linux please, for the love of god try python3 instead of python.
- Did you update the directories? If you're getting "Path/To/transcript.txt/ isn't found" you need to put the directory your transcript.txt is in
- assuming you're like me and you saved it to your desktop it's C:<username>\Desktop\transcript.txt
Example of unformatted Text:
Example of formatted TXT:
