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🔹 YouTube Channel Transcript Extractor
👤 Client: 🇦🇺 Australia Member since 2023-04-24
💰 Price: ****
🚩 Problem: Extract and save transcripts from a YouTube channel into individual text files.
📦 Existing: Not specified

Specifications:

[Target] Python script for extracting transcripts
[Method] Input: YouTube channel URL; Output: .txt files per video transcript
[UI/UX] Command-line interface (CLI) for input and output paths
[Stack] Python, requests, youtube-transcript-api
[Security] No external API keys required
[Format] Text (.txt) files named by video title or ID

Workflow:

1. Accept YouTube channel URL as command-line argument.
2. Use requests to fetch video metadata from the channel.
3. Iterate through each video, extract transcript using youtube-transcript-api.
4. Save transcripts in .txt files named by video title or ID.
5. Log skipped videos without transcripts.
6. Generate summary of successful and skipped extractions.