Adding the title of the video in the metadata

[santaCruz1854789]

This request comes from the necessity to orderly save the transcribed file with a relevant and recognizable name.
This addition should contribute to the API involvement in complex apps where you could for instance transcribe and save a batch of videos in an orderly manner.

I would like to have the metadata of the transcription include the title of the video as well.

The alternative is to fetch a YouTube Data API Key through Google Developers Console and use a different dedicated module to request it, which seems a bit and pardon my wording: "overkill."

In my case I'm trying to efficiently save and label video transcriptions file by minimizing the amount of time I have to manually interact with the code.
In my case for every video I have to manually change the file name with the title of the video.

Thank you for reading my request.

[D1Vincenzo]

I am looking for this feature too, great to see someone came it up

[abhranil26]

yes this is needed

[arnobeutch]

I concur - and at the occasion thank you authors for this very useful API.
@santaCruz1854789 rather than taking the pain of going through the Google API, you can use beautifulsoup:

    soup = BeautifulSoup(r.content, "html.parser")
    link = soup.find_all(name="title")[0]
    video_title = link.text

[jdepoix]

Hi all!

Just a quick update on this: with the introduction of v1.0.0 I've refactored some things under the hood, which will allow me to access metadata like the video's title more easily. I will try to create a new release soon which will make this information accessible through the Transcript and FetchedTranscript objects!

[arnobeutch]

That'd be excellent, @jdepoix.

[antoniobologna]

It would be ideal to include other things as well, if possible, such as:

• shortDescription
• thumbnails
• title
• Other JSON attributes from metadata?

[kaustubh-darekar]

Would love see title as metadata. let us know

[mohamedelhosseiny]

Any updates on this? 👀

[jdepoix]

@mohamedelhosseiny No updates here unfortunately. Maintaining has been taking up a lot of time recently, so I have been struggling to find time to add new features!

[mohamedelhosseiny]

@jdepoix no worries bro, btw the package is awesome! 🚀