🔬 Extract transcripts from external YouTube videos using YouTube Transcript API
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Description
🚀 Try It Out!
YouTube Transcript API Extractor (Any Public Video)
Extracts a clean transcript from a videoId using youtube-transcript.io.
🎯 Use Cases
- AI summaries, sentiment analysis, keyword extraction
- Internal indexing/SEO
- Content pipelines (blog/newsletter)
- Batch transcript processing
🔄 How It Works (5 Steps)
- 📥 Input:
youtubeVideoId,apiToken - 🌐 API: POST to youtube-transcript.io
- 🧩 Parse: Normalizes the response format
- 🧹 Clean: Normalizes text and whitespace
- ✅ Output: Transcript + metrics (
wordCount/charCount)
🚀 How to Use
Payload:
{"youtubeVideoId":"xObjAdhDxBE", "apiToken": "xxxxxxxxxx"}
⚙️ Setup:
- This sub-workflow is intended to be called from another workflow (Execute Workflow Trigger)
🔗 Nodes Used
HTTP Request, Stop and Error, Execute Workflow Trigger
📥 Import
Download workflow.json and import into n8n:
Workflow menu → Import from File