containerized yt-dlp command to download and clean Youtube transcripts and output the results to stdout. The purpose of this gist is to use the resulting output for text generation AI processes.

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docker run --rm ghcr.io/jauderho/yt-dlp:latest --quiet --no-warnings --ignore-config --skip-download --write-subs --write-auto-subs --sub-lang en --sub-format ttml --convert-subs srt --exec before_dl:"echo %(title)q" --exec before_dl:"cat %(requested_subtitles.:.filepath)#q | sed  '/^[0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9].[0-9][0-9][0-9] --> [0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9].[0-9][0-9][0-9]$/d' | sed '/^[[:digit:]]\{1,3\}$/d' | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g' | sed '/^[[:space:]]*$/d' " <YouTube video URL>