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youtube-transcript-api

This is a python API which allows you to get the transcripts/subtitles for a given YouTube video. It also works for automatically generated subtitles, supports translating subtitles and it does not require a headless browser, like other selenium based solutions do!
Licenses: MIT
Published: 7 years ago Last updated: 4 months ago Latest version: 1.2.4 Latest non-vulnerable version: 1.2.4
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Package Health Score

77/100
  • securityNo known security issues
  • popularityInfluential project
  • maintenanceSustainable
  • communitySustainable

Maintenance

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Last Release
4 months ago
Last Commit
18 days ago
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Further analysis of the maintenance status of youtube-transcript-api based on released PyPI versions cadence, the repository activity, and other data points determined that its maintenance is Sustainable.

We found that youtube-transcript-api demonstrates a positive version release cadence with at least one new version released in the past 12 months.

As a healthy sign for on-going project maintenance, we found that the GitHub repository had at least 1 pull request or issue interacted with by the community.

Popularity

INFLUENTIAL PROJECT
GitHub Stars
7.7k
Forks
784
Contributors
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Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the PyPI package youtube-transcript-api, we found that it has been starred 7,654 times.

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Funding
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LICENSE
MIT

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Security

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There are 1 total vulnerabilities, but none affect the latest version (1.2.4)

Package versions

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youtube-transcript-api dependencies

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