YouTube transcripts#

YouTube is an online video sharing and social media platform created by Google.

This notebook covers how to load documents from YouTube transcripts.

from langchain.document_loaders import YoutubeLoader

# !pip install youtube-transcript-api

loader = YoutubeLoader.from_youtube_url("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsYGlZkevEg", add_video_info=True)

loader.load()

Add video info#

# ! pip install pytube

loader = YoutubeLoader.from_youtube_url("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsYGlZkevEg", add_video_info=True)
loader.load()

Add language preferences#

Language param : It’s a list of language codes in a descending priority, en by default.

translation param : It’s a translate preference when the youtube does’nt have your select language, en by default.

loader = YoutubeLoader.from_youtube_url("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsYGlZkevEg", add_video_info=True, language=['en','id'], translation='en')
loader.load()

YouTube loader from Google Cloud#

Prerequisites#

  1. Create a Google Cloud project or use an existing project

  2. Enable the Youtube Api

  3. Authorize credentials for desktop app

  4. pip install --upgrade google-api-python-client google-auth-httplib2 google-auth-oauthlib youtube-transcript-api

🧑 Instructions for ingesting your Google Docs data#

By default, the GoogleDriveLoader expects the credentials.json file to be ~/.credentials/credentials.json, but this is configurable using the credentials_file keyword argument. Same thing with token.json. Note that token.json will be created automatically the first time you use the loader.

GoogleApiYoutubeLoader can load from a list of Google Docs document ids or a folder id. You can obtain your folder and document id from the URL: Note depending on your set up, the service_account_path needs to be set up. See here for more details.

from langchain.document_loaders import GoogleApiClient, GoogleApiYoutubeLoader

# Init the GoogleApiClient 
from pathlib import Path


google_api_client = GoogleApiClient(credentials_path=Path("your_path_creds.json"))


# Use a Channel
youtube_loader_channel = GoogleApiYoutubeLoader(google_api_client=google_api_client, channel_name="Reducible",captions_language="en")

# Use Youtube Ids

youtube_loader_ids = GoogleApiYoutubeLoader(google_api_client=google_api_client, video_ids=["TrdevFK_am4"], add_video_info=True)

# returns a list of Documents
youtube_loader_channel.load()