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Extract a YouTube Video Transcript

Retrieve and clean the full available transcript for a submitted YouTube video.

Setup

Connect GetYouTubeTranscript in Fetch the transcript. Configure a form or client to POST JSON such as {“video”:“https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw"} to the Open Flow webhook. In n8n use the hosted form and configure HTTP Header Auth with Authorization set to Bearer followed by your GetYouTubeTranscript API key in Fetch the transcript. Change the form path if it conflicts. Activate one format.

Behavior

Submit a YouTube watch, Shorts, embed or completed live-recording URL, or an 11-character video ID. The workflow retrieves the available transcript and cleans excess whitespace and spaces before punctuation. The result appears in the workflow run; the form or webhook acknowledgment does not contain the transcript. The service chooses the caption language according to its defaults. Private, inaccessible or captionless videos and request failures stop the run. Service and execution-size limits apply; the workflow does not truncate transcript text.

Inspiration & credits

Changes to the source

Replace its fixed video ID with the submitted video and verify the returned video ID. Both formats use GetYouTubeTranscript; Open Flow accepts JSON instead of the hosted form.
Replace the example API key with a connection or credential and keep the result as a workflow output.

Adapted from YouTube Video Transcript Extraction in Zie619/n8n-workflows. The source export does not identify a separate template author or license.

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