Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. YouTube: How to extract closed caption transcript from YouTube video? Ask Question. Asked 9 years, 8 months ago. Active 13 days ago. Viewed k times. Is it possible to extract the closed caption transcript from YouTube videos? I tried the URL in this blog but it does not work with our videos.
Improve this question. Promise Preston Minghui Yu Minghui Yu 1, 2 2 gold badges 18 18 silver badges 26 26 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Here's how to get the transcript of a YouTube video when available : Go to YouTube and open the video of your choice. Click on the "More actions" button 3 horizontal dots located next to the Share button. Click "Open transcript" Although the syntax may be a little goofy this is a pretty good solution.
Improve this answer. Franck Dernoncourt Will Will 1, 1 1 gold badge 8 8 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges. That's exactly what I needed. You can click each caption to jump straight to the right part of the video. This is much better solution than all hacks suggested in many other similar question on SO, some of 'em led me to pop up spam, — old-monk. As of , this is the only working solution.
I think YouTube video downloads, and I assume by proxy, subtitles, is a moving target. The youtube-dl folks are the only ones that consistently hit the mark of being able to automatically download from YouTube, probably because they actively make sure it keeps working.
Thanks for doing this answer, how do I print the simplified format to a text file or markdown? I mean how to modify the cap command to print to a file rather than print it out in terminal — Kim Stacks. In case anybody looking at this answer, I have asked and received an answer on how to have the simplified format be printed into a file See stackoverflow.
Here's a detailed bash script for those who wants to save the subs file with a relative path. The result is saved as plaintext, removing time, new lines and other markup.
As of May this no longer works I'm guessing that video. Any other google tool to extract the captions? Thanks for the headsup, BUT This solution still works, just tested it. It might be some formatting option language, maybe?
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