yt-srt-gen 0.1.7

Download YouTube videos, generate and translate subtitles

yt-srt-gen

yt-srt-gen is a Python 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

You can install yt-srt-gen via pip:

pip install git+https://github.com/fertkir/yt-srt-gen.git

Or clone the repository and install manually:

git clone https://github.com/fertkir/yt-srt-gen.git
cd yt-srt-gen
pip install .

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.

Dependencies

• yt-dlp - for downloading YouTube videos.
• openai-whisper - for automatic subtitle generation.
• googletrans - for translating subtitles.
• tqdm - for showing progress bars.

License

This project is licensed under the GPL-3.0-or-later license.

Author

Kirill Fertikov — [e-mail]