Introduction

This repository contains a Python script that allows you to fetch video transcripts from a YouTube channel.

Installation

1. Clone the repository to your local machine using the following command:

   git clone https://github.com/imomayiz/youtube_scraper.git
   

2. Navigate to the youtube_scraper directory:

3. Install the necessary dependencies by running the following command:

   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

4. Create a .env file in the youtube_scraper directory and add your YouTube API key. The .env file should contain the following line:

   YOUTUBE_API_KEY=your-api-key
   

   Replace your-api-key with your actual YouTube API key. For more details on how to create a youtube api key, follow this guide.

Usage

To fetch video transcripts from a YouTube channel, follow these steps:

1. Open a terminal or command prompt.

2. Navigate to the youtube_scraper directory:

   cd youtube_scraper
   

3. Run the following command to execute the script:

   python ytb_scraper.py --channel_name "your-channel-name" --results_dir "path-to-save-transcripts" --max_videos 10
   

   Replace your-channel-name with the name of the YouTube channel you want to fetch transcripts from. Replace path-to-save-transcripts with the directory where you want to save the transcripts. The --max_videos argument is optional and allows you to limit the number of videos to fetch a transcript for.

4. The script will start fetching the transcripts from all videos in the specified channel and save them in separate text files.

N.B. Not all videos have a transcript!