Introduction
# YouTube Watcher
Fetch transcripts from YouTube videos to enable summarization, QA, and content extraction.
## Usage
### Get Transcript
Retrieve the text transcript of a video.
```bash python3 {baseDir}/scripts/get_transcript.py "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID" ```
## Examples
**Summarize a video:**
1. Get the transcript: ```bash python3 {baseDir}/scripts/get_transcript.py "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ" ``` 2. Read the output and summarize it for the user.
**Find specific information:**
1. Get the transcript. 2. Search the text for keywords or answer the user's question based on the content.
## Notes
- Requires `yt-dlp` to be installed and available in the PATH. - Works with videos that have closed captions (CC) or auto-generated subtitles. - If a video has no subtitles, the script will fail with an error message.