yt-srt-gen 0.1.9

Download YouTube videos, generate and translate subtitles

yt-srt-gen

yt-srt-gen is a tool for downloading YouTube videos, generating subtitles using OpenAI Whisper, and translating them into another language (e.g., English) automatically.

Features

• Download YouTube videos using yt-dlp.
• Generate subtitles with OpenAI Whisper.
• Translate subtitles to a target language using googletrans.
• Supports multiple subtitle formats: srt, vtt, txt, tsv, json.

Installation

pip install yt-srt-gen

Install openai-whisper if not installed.

pip install openai-whisper

yt-srt-gen requires openai-whisper, but it doesn't ship it as a dependency to save up disk space when both packages are needed separately and installed via pipx.

Usage

yt-srt-gen <YouTube URL> [OPTIONS]

Arguments

• <YouTube URL>: URL of the YouTube video.

Options

• --source-language, -s: Language spoken in the audio.
• --target-language, -t: Language for translated subtitles.
• --output-format, -f: Subtitle output format (txt, vtt, srt, tsv, json, all, default: srt).
• --whisper-args, -w: Additional arguments to pass to openai-whisper.

Examples

yt-srt-gen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ --source-language es --target-language en --output-format srt

yt-srt-gen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ -s sr -t en -w "--model small --fp16 False"

This will download the video, generate Spanish subtitles, and append English translations.