Tool for extracting vocab words from youtube video subtitles

I mentioned this in another thread. It's a python tool that can take the video id of a youtube video, download the subtitles, tokenize them, order them by frequency, and finally will output an anki deck as an .apkg.

A script is included for converting to a more pleco friendly (hopefully) format. Download the zip at the below link and open the documentation for information on usage.

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I use when I'm trying to understand youtube content that is a different context to what I'm familiar with. Just filter out the high frequency words, and bam, you have a deck with the wierd/less-common words that you want to study.

I've found it to be helpful. Works for mandarin, russian, spanish, japanese. Although I only use it for Chinese anymore, and didn't do any tweaking or tuning for the other languages.

Hi dightonjw,

thanks a lot for this package! I can see it's very professionally done, and also the documentation is great! It ought to be able to run on Macs running Homebrew, too.

Cheers,

Shun

Hello dightonjw, this looks very useful. Would you please consider uploading the script again if you still have it? No worries if not.