Guides for getting video transcripts into your product
Step by step: YouTube and TikTok transcripts, retrieval pipelines for AI, n8n workflows and LangChain agents.
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How to get a YouTube transcript
Five ways to get the transcript of a YouTube video: in YouTube itself, with yt-dlp, in Python, through the Transcript Dock API, or by asking Claude.
How to get a TikTok transcript
Get the transcript of a TikTok video as text or subtitles, list a profile's latest videos, and handle videos without captions.
Video transcripts for RAG and LLM pipelines
Turn YouTube and TikTok videos into chunks an LLM can search and cite: fetch timed segments, chunk by time, keep timestamp links.
YouTube and TikTok transcripts in n8n
Fetch video transcripts in an n8n workflow with three HTTP Request nodes, or give an n8n AI agent the Transcript Dock MCP tools.
Video transcripts in LangChain
Load YouTube and TikTok transcripts as LangChain Documents with timestamps, or give a LangChain agent the Transcript Dock MCP tools.