Extract transcripts from external YouTube Videos using YouTube Transcript API

Description

🚀 Try It Out! YouTube Transcript API Extractor (Any Public Video) Extracts a clean transcript from a videoId using youtube-transcript.io. 🎯 Use Cases AI summaries, sentiment analysis, keyword extraction Internal indexing/SEO Content pipelines (blog/newsletter) Batch transcript processing 🔄 How It Works (5 Steps) 📥 Input: youtubeVideoId, apiToken 🌐 API: POST to youtube-transcript.io 🧩 Parse: Normalizes the response format 🧹 Clean: Normalizes text and whitespace ✅ Output: Transcript + metrics (wordCount/charCount) 🚀 How to Use Payload: {"youtubeVideoId":"xObjAdhDxBE", "apiToken": "xxxxxxxxxx"} ⚙️ Setup: This sub-workflow is intended to be called from another workflow (Execute Workflow Trigger). An n8n automation workflow template by Joel Cantero.

Categories

• Automation

Tags

• n8n
• workflow
• http-request
• code

Capabilities

• 2 nodes