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Extract transcripts from external YouTube videos using YouTube Transcript API

πŸš€ Try It Out! YouTube Transcript API Extractor (Any Public Video) Extracts a clean transcript from a videoId using youtube-transcript.io. --- 🎯 Use Cases - AI summaries, sentiment analysis, keyword extraction - Inte...

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πŸš€ Try It Out!

YouTube Transcript API Extractor (Any Public Video) Extracts a clean transcript from a videoId using youtube-transcript.io.

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🎯 Use Cases - AI summaries, sentiment analysis, keyword extraction - Internal indexing/SEO - Content pipelines (blog/newsletter) - Batch transcript processing

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πŸ”„ How It Works (5 Steps) 1. πŸ“₯ Input: youtubeVideoId, apiToken 2. 🌐 API: POST to youtube-transcript.io 3. 🧩 Parse: Normalizes the response format 4. 🧹 Clean: Normalizes text and whitespace 5. βœ… Output: Transcript + metrics (wordCount/charCount)

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πŸš€ How to Use Payload: {"youtubeVideoId":"xObjAdhDxBE", "apiToken": "xxxxxxxxxx"}