YouTube Reader

YouTubeReader is a reader class that allows you to read transcript from YouTube videos.

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
chunking_strategy	Optional[ChunkingStrategy]	RecursiveChunking()	Strategy used to chunk documents

YouTubeReader also accepts the base Reader constructor parameters.

Methods

read()

Reads the transcript of a YouTube video and returns a list of documents.

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
url	str	Required	URL of the YouTube video to extract the transcript from
name	Optional[str]	None	Name override for the resulting documents

async_read()

Async variant of read(). Accepts url only.