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Bilibili Youtube Watcher

Fetch and read transcripts from YouTube and Bilibili videos.

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Version: 1.0.0

Overview

Fetch and read transcripts from YouTube and Bilibili videos.

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Video Watcher

Fetch transcripts from YouTube and Bilibili videos to enable summarization, QA, and content extraction.

Supported Platforms

✅ YouTube (youtube.com, youtu.be)
✅ Bilibili (bilibili.com, b23.tv)

Usage

Get Transcript (Auto-detect Platform)

bash

python3 {baseDir}/scripts/get_transcript.py "VIDEO_URL"

Specify Language

bash

python3 {baseDir}/scripts/get_transcript.py "VIDEO_URL" --lang zh-CN

Examples

YouTube Video

bash

python3 {baseDir}/scripts/get_transcript.py "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"

Bilibili Video

bash

python3 {baseDir}/scripts/get_transcript.py "https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1xx411c7mD"

With Custom Language

bash

# Get English subtitles for a Bilibili video
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/get_transcript.py "https://bilibili.com/video/..." --lang en

# Get Chinese subtitles for a YouTube video
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/get_transcript.py "https://youtube.com/watch?v=..." --lang zh-CN

Default Languages

Platform	Default Language
YouTube	en (English)
Bilibili	zh-CN (Chinese)

Common Language Codes

en - English
zh-CN - Simplified Chinese (简体中文)
zh-TW - Traditional Chinese (繁體中文)
ja - Japanese
ko - Korean
es - Spanish
fr - French
de - German

Notes

Requires yt-dlp to be installed and available in PATH
Works with videos that have closed captions (CC) or auto-generated subtitles
Automatically detects platform from URL
If no subtitles available, the script will fail with an error message
yt-dlp natively supports both YouTube and Bilibili

Installation

Terminal bash


openclaw install bilibili-youtube-watcher

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💻Code Examples

python3 {baseDir}/scripts/get_transcript.py "VIDEO_URL" --lang zh-CN

python3-basedirscriptsgettranscriptpy-videourl---lang-zh-cn.txt

## Examples

### YouTube Video

example.sh

# Get English subtitles for a Bilibili video
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/get_transcript.py "https://bilibili.com/video/..." --lang en

# Get Chinese subtitles for a YouTube video
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/get_transcript.py "https://youtube.com/watch?v=..." --lang zh-CN