- **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.
- **Issue:** N/A
- **Dependencies:** N/A
- **Twitter:** lsloan_umich
- **Mastodon:**
[lsloan@mastodon.social](https://mastodon.social/@lsloan)
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>