For my wiki, I’ve wanted to use the transcripts for key word tagging. (It’s very time-consuming to listen to the videos and do it by hand.)
Google does have an API to get at them, but they have many hoops to jump through first.
- Sign up as a Google developer. ($20)
- Set up your application with Google and get authentication keys. (A pain.)
- Then in the app, a series of handshakes just to make the request.
It’s too bad that they don’t make as easy as, you know, watching the video.
I notice that the website doesn’t give you the option of which transcript when there’s more than one, but I don’t know if that would be a problem.
