Video Transcript

Pull a video's transcript as readable paragraphs. Two paths, in order:

Path 1 — uploader subtitles (accurate, prefer when present):

yt-dlp --skip-download --write-subs --sub-langs en --sub-format vtt \
  -o '<work-dir>/%(id)s' '<URL>'

Path 2 — auto-generated captions (fallback when path 1 writes no file):

yt-dlp --skip-download --write-auto-subs --sub-langs en --sub-format vtt \
  -o '<work-dir>/%(id)s' '<URL>'

Then clean the VTT into paragraphs: