Packaging A YouTube Transcript

Packaging A YouTube Transcript for reading/highlighting (for my digital garden):

(Not every YouTube video has a transcript, but many do.)

My current process

  • view transcript
  • copy/paste whole page into BBEdit text-editor
  • strip out top/bottom junk; move header info to top if necessary
  • use regex to strip out all the timestamp-lines
  • make a new google doc, paste in whole doc
  • copy the title to the doc-title, style the in-body title, etc.
  • sometimes I go through and every couple pages I try to find a conversation-break and insert a line-break, but that's usually not worth the effort....
  • the Download/Export as epub

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