- NOTICE
- The library is currently broken due to API change

Youtube subtitles downloader

Download closed captions from youtube videos (both manual and automatically generated), and convert them to srt format

python implementation

Usage example

ytsubtitles ZXD4X6INh7w --lang=it > out.srt

Acknowledgements

• Original js implementation: https://github.com/syzer/youtube-captions-scraper/blob/master/src/index.js
• SRT conversion: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577459-convert-a-youtube-transcript-in-srt-subtitle/