yt-transcript-tools/ReadMe.md

yt-transcript-tools

Getting transcripts into epub format.

Download a transcript, place it in this directory, run ./convert_transcript.lua FILE, fill in author and link as requested, and you will have a usable epub.

• If that website fails to select the correct language, you can use https://tubetranscript.com/ and pass --tube as a 2nd argument to use that output instead, but the quality will be worse.

(I also use thumbnails as the "cover" by grabbing them here.)

The file name will be set as the title.

This is heavily WIP.

This will probably fail with videos longer than an hour because the export will be different enough to fuck up the margin fix.

I am really frustrated because pandoc doesn't support plain text. I went through many tests and iterations before coming to even this minimal start and it was extremely frustrating.

Tasks

• I need an option / 2nd script to output a version with no timecode formatting for easier text extraction.
  • I made it actually just combine both in the same document, easier to manage that way.