{"id":35704,"date":"2025-09-28T20:28:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T18:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/fetch-thousands-of-youtube-videos-with-structured-transcripts-metadata-in-python\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T20:28:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T18:28:28","slug":"fetch-thousands-of-youtube-videos-with-structured-transcripts-metadata-in-python","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/fetch-thousands-of-youtube-videos-with-structured-transcripts-metadata-in-python\/","title":{"rendered":"Fetch Thousands Of YouTube Videos With Structured Transcripts &amp; Metadata In Python"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>I made a Python package called <strong>YTFetcher<\/strong> that lets you <strong>grab thousands of videos from a YouTube channel<\/strong> along with <strong>structured transcripts<\/strong> and metadata (titles, descriptions, thumbnails, publish dates).<\/p>\n<p>You can also <strong>export<\/strong> data as <strong>CSV, TXT or JSON.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Install with:<\/p>\n<p><code>pip install ytfetcher<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quick CLI usage for getting started:<\/p>\n<p><code>ytfetcher from_channel -c TheOffice -m 50 -f json<\/code><\/p>\n<p>This will give you to <strong>50 videos of structured transcripts and metadata<\/strong> for every video from <strong>TheOffice<\/strong> channel.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve ever needed <strong>bulk YouTube transcripts or structured video data<\/strong>, this should save you a ton of time.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out on GitHub: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/kaya70875\/ytfetcher\">https:\/\/github.com\/kaya70875\/ytfetcher<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/nagmee\"> \/u\/nagmee <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1nru41c\/fetch_thousands_of_youtube_videos_with_structured\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1nru41c\/fetch_thousands_of_youtube_videos_with_structured\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-35704 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='35704' data-nonce='614a020375' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-35704 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-35704 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made a Python package called YTFetcher that lets you grab thousands of videos from a YouTube&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}