Extract YouTube auto-generated transcripts for AI analysis and storage

🎬 Extract YouTube auto-generated transcripts and save them for AI processing

Direct YouTube API - Auto-Generated Only

Extracts the auto-generated transcript from any YouTube video automatically.

🔄 How It Works (5 Steps)

1. 📥 Input: youtubeVideoUrl only
2. 🌐 Fetch: GET YouTube page HTML to extract INNERTUBE_API_KEY
3. 🔑 Extract: Parse API key and video ID
4. 🎥 Metadata: GET caption metadata
5. 🤖 Auto-Detect: Find auto-generated transcript (kind: asr)
6. 📝 Fetch & Parse: Download and clean transcript

🔄 Setup steps

1. Import the workflow to your n8n instance
2. Activate the workflow
3. Provide the YouTube video URL via webhook or manual trigger
4. The workflow will automatically extract the auto-generated transcript
5. Access the results in the specified output format

🎯 Use Cases

• Extract auto-generated transcripts automatically
• No language selection needed
• Perfect for bulk transcript collection
• AI processing, summarization, analysis
• Content accessibility

✅ Output Format

{
  "fullTranscript": "Auto-generated transcript text...",
  "wordCount": 1234,
  "transcript": [...timestamps...]
}