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vcat
Vcat helps you save YouTube video transcriptions without the need of an API key. Just like cat(1), but for YouTube videos.
Usage
Printing out the transcription JSON to stdout.
> vcat -u "url" --pretty
# {
# "data": [
# {
# "start": "00:00:01",
# "end": "00:00:04",
# "duration": 3.78,
# "text": "more recent thoughts on crypto after"
# },
# {
# "start": "00:00:03",
# "end": "00:00:07",
# "duration": "4.981",
# "text": "Banks not working not really"
# },
# ...
#}
List available transcriptions:
> vcat -l -u "url"
# [{Afrikaans af} {Akan ak} {Albanian sq} {Amharic am} {Arabic ar} {Armenian hy}
# {Assamese as} {Aymara ay} {Azerbaijani az} {Bangla bn} {Basque eu} {Belarusian be}
# {Bhojpuri bho} {Bosnian bs} {Bulgarian bg} {Burmese my} {Catalan ca} {Cebuano ceb}
# {Chinese (Simplified) zh-Hans} {Chinese (Traditional) zh-Hant} {Corsican co} {Croatian hr}
# {Czech cs} {Danish da} {Divehi dv} {Dutch nl} {English en} {Esperanto eo} {Estonian et}
# {Ewe ee} {Filipino fil} {Finnish fi} {French fr} {Galician gl} {Ganda lg} {Georgian ka}
# {German de} {Greek el} {Guarani gn} {Gujarati gu} {Haitian Creole ht} {Hausa ha}
# {Hawaiian haw} {Hebrew iw} {Hindi hi} {Hmong hmn} {Hungarian hu} {Icelandic is}
# {Igbo ig} {Indonesian id} {Irish ga} {Italian it} {Japanese ja} {Javanese jv} {Kannada kn}
# ...
# ]
Specify a different transcription language:
> vcat --language="cs" -u "url"
Save to file:
> vcat -o tmp/file.json -u "url"
Work with a CSV:
> vcat -u "url" --format csv
# start,end,duration,text
# 00:00:01,00:00:04,3.78,more recent thoughts on crypto after
# 00:00:03,00:00:07,4.98,Banks not working not really
Install
From source
> git clone git@github.com:hum/vcat.git
> cd vcat
> make build
> ./bin/vcat -u [URL]
With Go Install
> go install github.com/hum/vcat/cmd/vcat@latest
> vcat -u [URL]
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type AvailableLanguage ¶
type AvailableLanguage struct {
// Full name of the language translation, e.g. "English"
Name string `json:"name"`
// Code representation of the language's name, e.g. "en"
Code string `json:"code"`
}
AvailableLanguage holds the available translation data of transcripts provided by YouTube
func GetAvailableLanguages ¶
func GetAvailableLanguages(url string) ([]AvailableLanguage, error)
type Transcript ¶
type Transcript struct {
XMLName xml.Name `xml:"transcript" json:"-"`
Text []struct {
XMLName xml.Name `xml:"text" json:"-"`
Start string `xml:"start,attr" json:"start"` // Start time of the text
End string `json:"end"`
Duration float64 `xml:"dur,attr" json:"duration"` // Approximate duration of the speech in `text`
Text string `xml:",innerxml" json:"text"` // The text being said in the current time bucket
} `xml:"text" json:"data"`
}
Transcript is the underlying structure for processing the raw data of the transcript. It is used both as a serializing entity and as an output entity.
func GetTranscription ¶
func GetTranscription(url string, language string) (*Transcript, error)
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