youtube-watcher

# YouTube Watcher Fetch transcripts from YouTube videos to enable summarization, QA, and content extraction. ## Usage ### Get Transcript Retrieve the text transcript of a video. ```bash python3 {baseDir}/scripts/get_transcript.py "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID" ``` ## Examples **Summarize a video:** 1. Get the transcript: ```bash python3 {baseDir}/scripts/get_transcript.py "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ" ``` 2. Read the output and summarize it for the user. **Find specific information:** 1. Get the transcript. 2. Search the text for keywords or answer the user's question based on the content. ## Notes - Requires `yt-dlp` to be installed and available in the PATH. - Works with videos that have closed captions (CC) or auto-generated subtitles. - If a video has no subtitles, the script will fail with an error message.