Fixing YouTube Transcription #118
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Why
The YouTube Player API that we previously relied on to fetch YouTube content was deprecated and shut down last year by Google. This has made fetching YouTube content impossible via the CLI, and thus has blocked users from transcribing YouTube content.
## What is changing
This old Youtube Player API functionality has been ripped out in favor of the kkdai/youtube package, which features much simpler abstractions for fetching YouTube content and is actively maintained.
Packages necessary to use
kkdai/youtubehave been installed and others were upgraded as needed. See go.mod for the full changes. This includes an overall upgrade to Go 1.21.How to test
Observe that upon using the new binary included on this branch with
assemblyai transcribe [youtube-url]that the YouTube content is fetched, downloaded, uploaded, then transcribed successfully.