YouTube transcript API: full text and timestamps from links, keyword searches or channels for $0.005 a video (Python, curl, MCP)
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A friend asked me which ChatGPT tutorial to send her mom to. I typed "chatgpt tutorial for beginners" into YouTube and got five long videos back, 2 hours 40 minutes of them in total. I wasn't going to watch all of that to answer one text message. I wanted the words, with timestamps, so I could skim…
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YouTube transcript API: full text and timestamps from links, keyword searches or channels for $0.005 a video (Python, curl, MCP)