Download Transcripts

In Microsoft Stream, you can go into the settings and Download Captions. I had to do this fancy stuff because the Video I wanted the transcript for was not mine, and I didn't have the option to Download Captions.

I found a chrome extension but that didn't work, so I made my own called https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/transcript-extractor-for/pabgaigmlgofdiialamkcpijifmodahl?authuser=0&hl=en using the knowledge I got from my previous answer to streamline this process for myself and others. Hope it helps!

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/transcript-extractor-for/pabgaigmlgofdiialamkcpijifmodahl?authuser=0&hl=en

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Previous Answer

MS Stream has a feature that lets the author of a video "prevent download" for other users. This seems to also be blocking downloading the transcript and not just the video. I wanted to get the transcript from a recorded work meeting and I couldn't find a simple way to do it. After scurrying around in the Network tab of my browser, I found a way to solve my problem.

So I found the API call that Stream makes to get the full transcript from the server. 

Currently, <urlToYourStreamVideo>/streamContent is the API call that responds with the JSON with all the transcript data. Once I found this, I copied the JSON into my browsers Console and did this: 

let asd = <paste your content here> //run this as step 1
let ftw = asd.entries.map(obj => obj.text) //run this as step 2
ftw.reduce((sum, x) => sum = sum + x + "\n") //run this as step 3

I then had to figure out how to select that massive transcript by dragging and dropping. You might have a better way to do this depending on the browser you use.

Once I had it all copied, I could then use it to get a decent summary from Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT.