YouTube Transcription Flask API

This project provides a simple Flask API to fetch and serve transcriptions for YouTube videos using the youtube-transcript-api library. It's designed to be a starting point for integrating YouTube transcriptions into web applications or for further development into more complex systems.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

Ensure you have Conda installed on your system. If not, follow the instructions at Conda Installation to set it up.

Installing

git clone https://github.com/IvanAquino/yt-transcription-api.git

1. Create and activate a Conda environment

conda create --name myflaskenv python=3.12
conda activate myflaskenv

2. Install the requirements

Inside the activated environment, install the required packages using:

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Start the Flask application

flask run

Usage

Example url

http://127.0.0.1:5000/transcript?video_id=U9mJuUkhUzk&languages=en