YouTube Caption Extractor (Your Channel Only)
YouTube Caption Extractor (Your Channel Only) Extracts clean transcripts from YOUR CHANNEL YouTube video captions using YouTube Data API v3. ⚠️ API Limitation: Only works with videos from YOUR OWN CHANNEL. Cannot access external/public videos. 🎯 Use Cases AI summarization & sentiment analysis Keyword extraction from your content Content generation from your videos Batch transcript processing 🔄 How It Works (6 Steps) 📥 Input: Receives videoId + preferredLanguage 🔍 API: Lists captions from your channel 🆔 Selector: Picks preferred language (fallback to first) 📥 Download: Gets VTT subtitle file 🧹 Cleaning: Removes timestamps, [Music], duplicates ✅ Output: Clean transcript + metadata 🚀 How to Use Trigger with JSON payload: {"youtubeVideoId": "YOUR_VIDEO_ID", "preferredLanguage": "es"} Video ID must belong to your authenticated YouTube channel** Works as sub-workflow (Execute Workflow Trigger) or replace with Webhook/Form trigger Handles videos with no captions gracefully with structured error response Output ready for downstream AI processing or storage ⚠️ Setup Required: Change YouTube credentials* in *"List Captions"* and *"Download VTT"** nodes Video ID from your authenticated channel Sub-workflow or Webhook trigger Graceful no-captions handling 🔧 Requirements ✅ YouTube OAuth2 (youtube.captions.read scope) ✅ Update credentials in List Captions + Download VTT nodes ✅ n8n HTTP Request + Code nodes 💬 Need Help? n8n Forum Happy Automating! 🎉. An n8n automation workflow template by Joel Cantero.
Joel Cantero
web
free
Others in the same category, ranked by how often they are opened.
