

That was what I can say.it’s an easy way, but also cumbersome because you need to clean out this time codes, etc. Once you do that, you can just hold at the start to the end and then copy this particular transcript. I’ve done a couple of videos on downloading YouTube subtitles on this channel and I’ll put a couple of links to some of the videos so that you can check them out if you’re interested.īut one of the videos that I’ve done is on easily downloading YouTube subtitles as transcripts.Īnd this particular video really involved just using these three dots here and clicking on open transcript. Hi, my name is David and if this is your first time watching my videos, and you get value from the content that you watch, kindly consider liking the video and sharing it with your friends so that we can all learn together. In this video, I’ll show you how to quickly download YouTube Subtitles and Closed Captions as SRT or text files using SaveSubs. Download the YouTube SRT or Text file for your video.Copy URL of the YouTube Video with the Subtitles.Writing video subtitles to: to Download YouTube Subtitles and Captions as SRT Subtitles or Text Using SaveSubs $ youtube-dl -output '%(autonumber)s.%(ext)s' -skip-download -sub-format 'ttml' -write-sub ''

$ youtube-dl -output '%(autonumber)s.%(ext)s' -skip-download -sub-format 'vtt' -write-sub '' YouTube only offers ttml and vtt files, as far as I can tell (and I'm able to download subtitles in both formats): $ youtube-dl -list-subs '' While it's possible to request a specific format using the -sub-format option, please note that the availability of such format depends on the website. I don't know why youtube-dl won't download in any other format, even if told to do so, a glitch still unresolved When downloading from playlists, you may use %(playlist_index)s instead. Note that %(autonumber)s is needed to concatenate the files in order. Writing video subtitles to: 00002.en.vtt w3_0圆oaDmI: Downloading video info webpage 5wpm-gesOY: Downloading video info webpage It seems that youtube-dl doesn't support such feature, but you can use cat to concatenate all the downloaded files: $ youtube-dl -output '%(autonumber)s.%(ext)s' -skip-download -write-sub '' ''
