Extract FULL YouTube Transcripts with Python (With & Without Timestamps)

Published: 14 December 2025
on channel: GiuliannaCode

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In this video, I show you how to extract an entire YouTube video transcript using Python, including:

✅ Manual captions (when available)
✅ Auto-generated captions as a fallback
✅ Clean transcript without timestamps
✅ Transcript with timestamps
✅ Save the output to a .txt file

This script uses youtube-transcript-api and handles different transcript object formats safely, so it works reliably across videos.

Perfect if you want to:

Build AI summaries
Feed transcripts into GPT
Analyze YouTube content
Automate content repurposing

📌 Code walkthrough included.
📁 Output ready for AI pipelines and automations.

Python Code
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jcgT...

Readme & requirements
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10bFM...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eBSb...

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