YouTube Transcript¶

Scraper to extract the transcript of a YouTube video.

Example usage:

import asyncio
from webquest.browsers import Hyperbrowser
from webquest.scrapers import YouTubeTranscript

async def main():
    scraper = YouTubeTranscript(browser=Hyperbrowser())
    response = await scraper.run(
        scraper.request_model(video_id="dQw4w9WgXcQ"),
    )
    print(response.model_dump_json(indent=4))

if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main())

Settings¶

YouTubeTranscriptSettings

Configuration settings for the YouTube transcript scraper.

Name	Type	Default	Description
`character_limit`	`int`	`5000`	The maximum number of characters to parse.

Request¶

YouTubeTranscriptRequest

Represents a request to extract the transcript of a YouTube video.

Name	Type	Default	Description
`video_id`	`str`	Required	The ID of the YouTube video.

Response¶

YouTubeTranscriptResponse

Represents the extracted transcript of a YouTube video.

Name	Type	Default	Description
`transcript`	`str`	Required	The transcript of the video.