YouTube Watcher

Fetch transcripts from YouTube videos to enable summarization, QA, and content extraction.

Usage

Get Transcript

Retrieve the text transcript of a video.

python3 {baseDir}/scripts/get_transcript.py "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"

Examples

Summarize a video:

1. Get the transcript: bash python3 {baseDir}/scripts/get_transcript.py "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"

2. Read the output and summarize it for the user.

Find specific information:

1. Get the transcript.

2. Search the text for keywords or answer the user's question based on the content.

Notes

• Requires yt-dlp to be installed and available in the PATH.

• Works with videos that have closed captions (CC) or auto-generated subtitles.

• If a video has no subtitles, the script will fail with an error message.