Extract transcripts from external YouTube videos using YouTube Transcript API
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What it does
🚀 Try It Out! YouTube Transcript API Extractor (Any Public Video) Extracts a clean transcript from a videoId using youtube-transcript.io. --- 🎯 Use Cases - AI summaries, sentiment analysis, keyword extraction - Internal indexing/SEO - Content pipelines (blog/newsletter) - Batch transcript processing --- 🔄 How It Works (5 Steps) 1. 📥 Input: youtubeVideoId, apiToken 2. 🌐 API: POST to youtube-transcript.io 3. 🧩 Parse: Normalizes the response format 4. 🧹 Clean: Normalizes text and whitespace 5. ✅ Output: Transcript + metrics (wordCount/charCount) --- 🚀 How to Use Payload: {"youtubeVideoId":"xObjAdhDxBE", "apiToken": "xxxxxxxxxx"} ⚙️ Setup: - This sub-workflow is intended to be called from another workflow (Execute Workflow Trigger)