YouTube Transcript Scraper

This script uses the YouTube Data API to find all videos from a specific channel and then downloads the transcript for each video.

Features

• Fetches all video IDs from a given YouTube channel.
• Downloads transcripts for each video.
• Saves each transcript as a separate .md file in a transcripts directory.
• Compiles all transcripts into a single master_transcript.md file, with video titles and URLs.

Setup

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone <repository-url>
   cd youtube-scraper

2. Create a virtual environment:

   python3 -m venv venv
   source venv/bin/activate

3. Install dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Set up your API Key:

   • Create a file named .env in the root of the project.
   • Add your YouTube Data API key to the .env file like this:

     YOUTUBE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY_HERE"
     

   • You can get a YouTube API key from the Google Cloud Console.

Usage

Run the script from your terminal:

python scraper.py

The script will create a transcripts directory and a master_transcript.md file in your project folder.