youtube2text 0.0.9

Convert youtube urls to text with speech recognition

Converts Youtube URLs to Text with Speech Recognition

What does the library does?

• Youtube -> Text: Translate youtube urls as text file (csv)
• Youtube -> Audio: Downloads youtube urls as audio file (wav, flac)
• Audio -> Text: Translate audio file (wav, flac) to text file (csv)

Three folders will be created to store the output files.

<Own Path> or <HOME_DIRECTORY>/youtube2text
│
├── audio/
│   └── 2022Jan02_011802.flac
|
├── audio-chunks/
│   └── 2022Jan02_011802
│       ├── chunk1.flac
│       ├── chunk2.flac
│       └── chunk3.flac
│   
└── text/
    └── 2022Jan02_011802.csv

How to install

Install and update using pip

pip install youtube2text

Build from source

git clone <this_repo>
cd <this_repo>
python setup.py install

How to use

• Using the library requires internet connection for both downloading youtube videos and speech recognition operation

from youtube2text import Youtube2Text

converter = Youtube2Text()

converter.url2text(urlpath="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad9Q8rM0Am0&t=114s")

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Functions

• Support audio output of
  • wav
  • flac
• Support Automatic Speech Recognition with backend
  • Native Python backend
  • Huggingface

Youtube -> Text

def url2text(self, urlpath, outfile = None, audioformat = "flac", audiosamplingrate=16000):
    '''
    Convert youtube url to text

    Parameters:
        urlpath (str): Youtube url
        outfile (str, optional): File path/name of output file (.csv)
        audioformat (str, optional): Audioformat supported in self.__audioextension
        audiosamplingrate (int, optional): Audio sampling rate
    '''

Youtube -> Audio

def url2audio(self, urlpath, audiofile = None, audiosamplingrate=16000):
    '''
    Convert youtube url to audiofile

    Parameters:
        urlpath (str): Youtube url
        audiofile (str, optional): File path/name to save audio file
        audiosamplingrate (int, optional): Audio sampling rate
    '''

Audio -> Text

def audio2text(self, audiofile, textfile = None):
    '''
    Convert audio to csv file

    Parameters:
        audiofile (str): File path/name of audio file
        textfile (str, optional): File path/name of text file (*.csv)
    '''