How We Built YouTube2Text: Extracting YouTube Transcripts with Python and Cloudflare Workers
YouTube has captions on most videos, but getting them out as clean text is surprisingly painful. There is no official “download transcript” API for casual use, third-party tools are ad-ridden, and most Python libraries that once worked have been broken by YouTube’s constant anti-scraping changes. So we built YouTube2Text — a free tool where you … Read more