YouTube Transcript Downloader

A Python package for downloading YouTube transcripts and audio with multiple output formats.

Features

• Download transcripts from YouTube videos and channels
• Fallback to audio download and transcription when transcripts are unavailable
• Multiple output formats (Markdown, HTML)
• Channel-wide processing
• Progress tracking and resumable downloads
• Cookie authentication support

Installation

pip install -e .

For development:

pip install -e ".[dev]"

Usage

Basic channel transcript download

yt-transcript https://www.youtube.com/c/ChannelName

With audio fallback

yt-transcript https://www.youtube.com/c/ChannelName --audio

Using cookies for authentication

yt-transcript https://www.youtube.com/c/ChannelName --cookies cookies.txt

HTML output format

yt-transcript https://www.youtube.com/c/ChannelName --output-format html

Extract cookies from browser

yt-transcript https://www.youtube.com/c/ChannelName --cookies-from-browser chrome

Configuration

The following options are available:

Option	Description
--audio	Download audio when transcripts are unavailable
--cookies	Path to cookies file for authentication
--cookies-from-browser	Extract cookies from browser (chrome, firefox, etc)
--output-format	Output format (markdown or html)
--output-file	Custom output filename

Development

Running tests

pytest

Building package

python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel

License

MIT