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YT Caption Retriever

Tool for retrieving YouTube video captions. You can retrieve captions from any YouTube video by providing its URL.

Retrieve YouTube video captions with ease! This plugin allows you to quickly get captions from any YouTube video by simply providing the video URL. You can use the captions for various purposes like translation and summarizing the video. Choose the language and type of captions you want to retrieve. If there are no manually created captions available, the plugin will automatically retrieve the auto-generated captions. When asked to translate, it will prioritize retrieving English captions and if not available, it will list the available languages for you to choose from. Make caption retrieval a breeze with YT Caption Retriever!

Learn how to use YT Caption Retriever effectively! Here are a few example prompts, tips, and the documentation of available commands.

Example prompts

  1. Prompt 1: "Can you retrieve the captions for this YouTube video?"

  2. Prompt 2: "I want to get the captions in English for a YouTube video."

  3. Prompt 3: "Retrieve the captions for this YouTube video in SRT format."

  4. Prompt 4: "What are the available languages for the captions of this YouTube video?"

  5. Prompt 5: "Can you get the auto-generated captions for this YouTube video?"

Features and commands

Feature/CommandDescription
fetchCaptionsRetrieves the captions for a YouTube video in various languages. You need to provide the URL of the YouTube video and can optionally specify the format, type, and language of the captions. The default format is text, the default type is manual, and the language is determined by the user's language if not specified.
fetchAvailableLanguagesRetrieves the available languages for the captions of a YouTube video. You need to provide the URL of the YouTube video.

Configuration

User authenticationNo user authentication
API documentation

For AI

Nameyt_caption_retriever
DescriptionPlugin for retrieving YouTube video captions. You can retrieve captions from any YouTube video by providing its URL. You can also use the caption for translating and summarizing the video. You can select which language and type to retrieve, the type has set to manual by default, and retrieve language which user's language used for retrieving request if there's no mention of it. If there's no manually created captions available, retrieve auto generated one. When being asked to translate, try to retrieve english caption, if there's none, list available language and retrieve the easiest one you can translate, then translate it by yourself.

Updates

First added28 June 2023

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