I would love a tool (or tools) that would let me:
1) Search all of the text transcripts for all of the videos for a given channel/creator;
2) Download all of the text transcripts for all of the videos for a given channel/creator;
Ideally without authentication/login...
You know, like the way plain old Google search works...
I tried to do this a few months ago (for videos not shorts) and found that YouTube will only let you download transcripts for your own uploads. You have to authenticate to the API. Also the transcripts aren’t that great. I ended up downloading the video and running whisper on it.
Do I understand correctly that this only works for shorts?
Might find some inspiration and complement with https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Potentially related: https://old.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/comments/15fcrmd/transcri...