Other people who benefit from subtitles include: It’s ideal for content you want to be shareable, as well, since you don’t know who your viewers will pass the video on to. This can be important when trying to reach people in various geographic areas. Why use subtitles?įirst, multilingual subtitle options benefit people who don’t speak the audio’s native language. It’s no longer something out of reach for even those with limited time and budget. I wrote my own C# program that extracts the data for a different purpose and it took less than two hours.Subtitles are an easy and highly effective way to make your video content more accessible to a wider audience, especially with the tech tools we have at our disposal today. If you are any good at programming, you can easily write up a program that will convert it to SRT. Other than that, I don't think you can use it the same way you would use an SRT file.
This xml file is useful if you want to use the transcript in a web page. The second one is typically the one you want.
Click on the Network tab in the Developer Tools.You may have to click on some empty space in the page so that the video is not active. Wait for it to play if there is an advertisement. Using Google Chrome in this example, navigate to the video then follow these steps:
Otherwise, if it is not your video, the best method (only method) is to get the xml file from the Developer tools. These have different uses in different applications, but are very similar. Video Manager > Edit (on the video you want) > Captions > (Click on the track you want to download) > Actions (drop down box)Īt the time of writing, there are three file types available: If it is your own video, you can download the subtitles from the video manager. To get SRT version run this code in the debugger console for that xml's page: function makeTimeline (time) )() Use "Network inspector" function of your browser's script debugger and find second request to timedtext page after enabling transcribed subtitles then just copy all that request to the addressbar to download them in native YouTube xml format.
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