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+# Grabbing a transcript of a short snippet of a YouTube video with MacWhisper
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+I grabbed [a quote](https://simonwillison.net/2023/Dec/1/jeremy-howard/) from a transcript of a snippet of a YouTube video today for my blog.
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+I use the [MacWhisper](https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper) macOS desktop app to run Whisper. It's a very pleasant GUI wrapper around the Whisper transcription model.
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+Usually I pull a full YouTube video using [yt-dlp](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp) and then drop the resulting `.mp4` file into MacWhisper to transcribe the whole thing.
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+Today I realized there's a faster way if I just want a transcript of a few minutes from the video:
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+1. Open MacWhisper
+2. Hit the "New Recording" button and then "Start Recording"
+3. Hit "Play" on the YouTube video
+4. Wait until the end of the snippet and hit "Stop Recording" in MacWhisper
+5. Hit "Transcribe Reporting" and wait a few seconds or minutes depending on the length of the snippet
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+Once the transcription is done you can hit the "Copy" button to copy out the text - I then usually drop it into VS Code to make a few minor edits.
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+Here's a GIF of the whole process:
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+![Animated GIF illustrating each of the above steps](https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2023/macwhisper.gif)