YouTube Video ID Generator and Subtitle Downloader

This repository contains two Python scripts: one for generating YouTube video IDs based on specific categories and regions, and another for downloading subtitles (auto-generated or available) and audio of these videos. This can be used to generate training data for Machine Learning.

Prerequisites

Install the required dependencies by running:

pip install -r requirements.txt

1. YouTube Video code Generator

This script fetches video codes from YouTube based on categories, regions, and charts. It can fetch more than 200 videos using pagination and appends the video codes to a text file.

Usage

python getID.py --output-file <output_file> --regionCode <region_code> --videoCategoryId <category_ids>

Example Command:

python getID.py --output-file video_ids.txt --regionCode US --videoCategoryId 10,24,17

Content Categories

1-10	Category
1	Film & Animation
2	Autos & Vehicles
10	Music
15	Pets & Animals
16	(unassigned)
17	Sports
18	Short Movies
19	Travel & Events
20	Gaming
21	Videoblogging
22	People & Blogs
23	Comedy
24	Entertainment (general)
25	News & Politics
26	Howto & Style
27	Education
28	Science & Technology
29	Nonprofits & Activism
30	Movies
31	Anime/Animation
32	Action/Adventure
33	Classics
34	Comedy
35	Documentary
36	Drama
37	Family
38	Foreign
39	Horror
40	Sci-Fi/Fantasy
41	Thriller
42	Shorts
43	Shows
44	Trailers

Or to get the codes based on specific keyword

Usage

python getID.py --output-file <output_file> --keyword <keyword> --maxResults <Maximum outputs>

Example Command:

python getID.py --output-file Kannada.txt --keyword "Kannada Travel vlog" --maxResults 50

2. YouTube Subtitle and Audio Downloader

This script downloads subtitles (either manually uploaded or auto-generated) and audio for videos from YouTube using their video IDs. It also supports specifying subtitle language and uses default settings if not provided.

Usage

python scraper.py --input-file <video_ids_file> --lang <subtitle_language>

Example Command:

python scraper.py --input-file video_ids.txt --lang kn

This command downloads audio and Kannada subtitles (kn) for the videos listed in video_ids.txt. If no language is specified, the script defaults to auto-detected subtitles