Is there any way to create the space between the words of output text file

Question

I used the following code to transcribe the youtube video into text but the outcomes out a little weird. There is no space between the words and some are club together.

#import libraries
from youtube_transcript_api import YouTubeTranscriptApi as yta
import re

#select any youtube video
vid_id = 'S4lTtvlFvyk'

#extract text
data = yta.get_transcript(vid_id)

#make your transcript more better
transcript=''
for value in data:
    for key,val in value.items():
        if key == 'text':
            transcript += val
l=transcript.splitlines()
final_tra = " ".join (l)


#write out transcript in the file
file=open(r"C:\Users\user.name\Desktop\python\DATA\Video files\trans.txt",'w')
file.write(final_tra)
file.close()

And the output file looks like:

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Some words are merged with each other and doesn't create any space. Please provide the appropriate solution for the same.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 27 '21 at 11:47

This may not give you exactly the output format you want but it's more concise and overcomes the word merging issue. If you dump (print) the dictionary returned by get_transcript() you'll get a better idea of what's going on.

from youtube_transcript_api import YouTubeTranscriptApi as yta
import re

# select any youtube video
vid_id = 'S4lTtvlFvyk'

# make your transcript more better
transcript = []
for value in yta.get_transcript(vid_id):
    transcript.append(value['text'])

final_tra = ' '.join(transcript)

# write out transcript in the file
with open(r'C:\Users\user.name\Desktop\python\DATA\Video files\trans.txt', 'w') as outfile:
    outfile.write(final_tra)

Is there any way to create the space between the words of output text file

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