fix: update fetch_transcript.py for youtube-transcript-api v1.x - #4455
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The library removed the static get_transcript() method in v1.0. Migrate to the new instance-based fetch() API and normalize FetchedTranscriptSnippet objects back to dicts for compatibility with the rest of the script.
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Summary
youtube-transcript-apilibrary removed the staticget_transcript()method in v1.0fetch_transcript.pyto the new instance-basedfetch()APIFetchedTranscriptSnippetobjects back to dicts so the rest of the script works unchangedTest plan
--text-only --timestampsmode returns timestamped transcript