There is a wealth of information out there on this topic, but, with a product like YouTube, what's true yesterday certainly isn't guaranteed to be true today. I found this out the hard way.
Working on a recent job for a real estate management company, I wanted transcripts of our footage to find the story we needed to tell. There were five or so separate interviews and I wanted to find the best nuggets of interview to piece together a cohesive story. I found a wealth (or glut) of (mis)information on how to get transcripts out of YouTube, but sure enough - they were ALL wrong. Every single one of them... or at least the seven to ten sources I used.
Even YouTube's own resources were somewhat difficult to follow. So... what I now give to you is the current (as of today) process for extracting transcripts from YouTube. Please enjoy and let me know in the comments if this process goes sour.
- Click on your profile image (top right) and select "Creator Studio"'
- Click "edit" for the video in question
. - The video must offer a "cc" logo when viewing in YouTube, if that is not available, it should appear in short time.
- Once a transcript is created, click the "English" button.
- A transcript should be available on the left side of the page.
- I then downloaded the file as an ".srt" file which you can view in the notepad application.
- Does this work for you? Do I need to update these instructions?
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