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Extract transcripts from external YouTube videos using YouTube Transcript API

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Created by: Joel Cantero || joelcantero
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YouTube Transcript API Extractor (Any Public Video)

Extracts a clean transcript from a videoId using youtube-transcript.io.


๐ŸŽฏ Use Cases

  • AI summaries, sentiment analysis, keyword extraction
  • Internal indexing/SEO
  • Content pipelines (blog/newsletter)
  • Batch transcript processing

๐Ÿ”„ How It Works (5 Steps)

  1. ๐Ÿ“ฅ Input: youtubeVideoId, apiToken
  2. ๐ŸŒ API: POST to youtube-transcript.io
  3. ๐Ÿงฉ Parse: Normalizes the response format
  4. ๐Ÿงน Clean: Normalizes text and whitespace
  5. โœ… Output: Transcript + metrics (wordCount/charCount)

๐Ÿš€ How to Use

Payload:
{"youtubeVideoId":"xObjAdhDxBE", "apiToken": "xxxxxxxxxx"}

โš™๏ธ Setup:

  • This sub-workflow is intended to be called from another workflow (Execute Workflow Trigger)