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17df267 | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 | ## Description
The `YouTube Transcript Fetcher` is a high-performance, command-line utility designed to extract transcripts directly from YouTube videos using the official internal caption delivery API. By bypassing traditional HTML scraping or headless browser automation, it achieves near-instant retrieval of caption data. The tool supports multiple output formats (Text, JSON, SRT, WebVTT), handles batch processing, and maintains language priority with automatic fallback.
## System Overview
```mermaid
graph TD
A[User Commands] --> B[main.py CLI Handler]
B --> C[YouTubeTranscriptApi Instance]
C --> D[YouTube timedtext Endpoint]
D -- XML/JSON Data --> C
C -- List of Snippets --> B
B --> E{Output Mode}
E -->|Write to File| F[Exported Transcript]
E -->|Terminal| G[Standard Output]
```
## Project Structure
```text
youtube-transcript-fetcher/
├── .gitignore
├── GUIDE.md
├── LICENSE
├── main.py
├── README.md
├── STACKS.md
└── requirements.txt
```
## Techstack
Audit of project files (excluding environment and cache):
| File Type | Count | Size (KB) |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Python (.py) | 1 | 9.9 |
| Markdown (.md) | 2 | 8.6 |
| Text (.txt) | 1 | 0.1 |
| Gitignore (.gitignore) | 1 | 0.1 |
| License | 1 | 1.1 |
**Total Files**: 6
## Dependencies
- **Python**:
- `youtube-transcript-api`: Core caption data retrieval and formatting.
- `argparse`: Command-line interface definition and parsing.
- `requests`: Underlying HTTP request handling (via the API library).
- `re`: URL parsing and video ID extraction.
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