Get any YouTube video's transcript as clean text for your LLM (no API key)
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Feeding a YouTube video to an LLM starts with one thing: the transcript . Here's how to get it as clean, token-efficient text for summarization, Q&A, or a RAG knowledge base — without the YouTube Data API or any key. Why not the official API? The YouTube Data API doesn't return caption text without…
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- 2026-09-17 06:30 · DEV Community — AI
Get any YouTube video's transcript as clean text for your LLM (no API key)