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# YouTube Transcript/Subtitle API (including automatically generated subtitles and subtitle translations)
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This is an python API which allows you to get the transcripts/subtitles for a given YouTube video. It also works for automatically generated subtitles, supports translating subtitles and it does not require a headless browser, like other selenium based solutions do!
This is a python API which allows you to get the transcript/subtitles for a given YouTube video. It also works for automatically generated subtitles, supports translating subtitles and it does not require a headless browser, like other selenium based solutions do!
## Install
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youtube_transcript_api --list-transcripts <first_video_id>
```
If a video's ID starts with a hyphen you'll have to mask the hyphen using `\` to prevent the CLI from mistaking it for a argument name. For example to get the transcript for the video with the ID `-abc123` run:
```
youtube_transcript_api "\-abc123"
```
## Proxy
You can specify a https/http proxy, which will be used during the requests to YouTube:

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help='The cookie file that will be used for authorization with youtube.'
)
return parser.parse_args(self._args)
return self._sanitize_video_ids(parser.parse_args(self._args))
def _sanitize_video_ids(self, args):
args.video_ids = [video_id.replace('\\', '') for video_id in args.video_ids]
return args

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self.assertEqual(parsed_args.format, 'pretty')
self.assertEqual(parsed_args.languages, ['en'])
def test_argument_parsing__video_ids_starting_with_dash(self):
parsed_args = YouTubeTranscriptCli('\-v1 \-\-v2 \--v3'.split())._parse_args()
self.assertEqual(parsed_args.video_ids, ['-v1', '--v2', '--v3'])
self.assertEqual(parsed_args.json, False)
self.assertEqual(parsed_args.languages, ['en'])
def test_argument_parsing__fail_without_video_ids(self):
with self.assertRaises(SystemExit):
YouTubeTranscriptCli('--format json'.split())._parse_args()