- **Description:** A change I submitted recently introduced a bug in
`YoutubeLoader`'s `LINES` output format. In those conditions, curly
braces ("`{}`") creates a set, not a dictionary. This bugfix explicitly
specifies that a dictionary is created.
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- **Description:** Add a new format, `CHUNKS`, to
`langchain_community.document_loaders.youtube.YoutubeLoader` which
creates multiple `Document` objects from YouTube video transcripts
(captions), each of a fixed duration. The metadata of each chunk
`Document` includes the start time of each one and a URL to that time in
the video on the YouTube website.
I had implemented this for UMich (@umich-its-ai) in a local module, but
it makes sense to contribute this to LangChain community for all to
benefit and to simplify maintenance.
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With regards to **tests and documentation**, most existing features of
the `YoutubeLoader` class are not tested. Only the
`YoutubeLoader.extract_video_id()` static method had a test. However,
while I was waiting for this PR to be reviewed and merged, I had time to
add a test for the chunking feature I've proposed in this PR.
I have added an example of using chunking to the
`docs/docs/integrations/document_loaders/youtube_transcript.ipynb`
notebook.
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Co-authored-by: Bagatur <baskaryan@gmail.com>
- **Description**: YoutubeLoader right now returns one document that
contains the entire transcript. I think it would be useful to add an
option to return multiple documents, where each document would contain
one line of transcript with the start time and duration in the metadata.
For example,
[AssemblyAIAudioTranscriptLoader](https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/blob/master/libs/community/langchain_community/document_loaders/assemblyai.py)
is implemented in a similar way, it allows you to choose between the
format to use for the document loader.
