Sometimes, we need to get transcripts/subtitles of YouTube videos, but to do this, we would have to go to the YouTube video and manually generate the transcript. In Python, we have a package named **youtube_transcript_api** that can be used to automatically give you a transcript that you can use as plain text.

First, let us install this package by running:
```
pip install youtube_transcript_api
```

Now, need the YouTube video id for the transcript we want to generate. In the URL below, the text in green is the video id:
```
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8Tko2YC5hA
```
# Code
Now, let's see the code:


from youtube_transcript_api import YouTubeTranscriptApi

def generate_transcript(id):
	transcript = YouTubeTranscriptApi.get_transcript(id)
	script = ""

	for text in transcript:
		t = text["text"]
		if t != '[Music]':
			script += t + " "
		
	return script, len(script.split())

id = 'Y8Tko2YC5hA'
transcript, no_of_words = generate_transcript(id)
print(transcript)

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**Explanation**
* In **line 1**, we import the required package.
* In **line 3**, we create the `generate_transcript()` function, which accepts the video `id` as a parameter and will return the transcript as well as the number of words in the transcript.
* In **line 4**, we use the `get_transcript()` method of our package that gets the transcript of the `id` provided as a parameter. This function returns a list of dictionaries, so we need to do some processing to convert it to a single string.
* In **line 7**, we run a loop to iterate over all the dictionary values and fetch the text for each time interval. Then, we combine it into a string.
* In **line 9**, we added a filter to skip the `Music` so that, if there is any music in the video, it will not come to our final transcript string.
* Finally, in **line 12**, we return the values.
* In **line 15**, we call our function by passing the video `id`.

> This package will throw an error if there is no subtitle for the YouTube video for which you passed the video `id`.

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How to get subtitles for YouTube videos using Python

Use the youtube_transcript_api package in Python to automatically generate and process YouTube video transcripts.