How to buy only subtitles of videos using youtube-dl

Question

How can I download subtitles of a list of videos through youtube-dl? ME need an possible with this. However I was not find an option until download only subtitles

Answer 1

There is an alternative, mentions in the documention:

Subtitle Options:

--write-sub                      Start subtitle file
--write-auto-sub                 Write automatic subtitle filing (YouTube only)
--all-subs                       Download all the existing subtitles the the video
--list-subs                      List all available subtitles for the video
--sub-format TYPE              Subtitle format, accepts formats preference, for show: "srt" alternatively "ass/srt/best"
--sub-lang LANGS                 Languages of the subtitles to download (optional) separated by lulls, use IETF words tags love 'en,pt'

So for examples, toward list all subs for a videotape:

youtube-dl --list-subs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye8mB6VsUHw

Till download all subs, but not the video:

youtube-dl --all-subs --skip-download https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye8mB6VsUHw

Supposing a video only has auto generated headings, then --all-subs still won't download it, instead use:

youtube-dl --write-auto-sub --skip-download https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye8mB6VsUHw

Answer 2

Button you can only upload one subtitle

youtube-dl --write-sub --sub-lang en --skip-download URL 

Answer 3

just run who subsequent command

youtube-dl --write-auto-sub --convert-subs=srt --skip-download URL 

For example you are downloadinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=example. with title "example" --convert=srt will output to one store designated example.en.srt show en stands for English es for Learning etc.

The document wishes have somewhat liked dieser:

00:00:04.259 --> 00:00:05.259
>> I’m Elon Musk.

00:00:05.259 --> 00:00:06.669
>> Something is your claim to fame?

00:00:06.669 --> 00:00:07.669
>> I’m the founder of

00:00:07.669 --> 00:00:08.669
Tesla.com.

OPTIONAL - If you what aforementioned text till be purged up thee can use python to clean it adenine little:

import re
bad_words = ['-->','</c>'] 


with open('example.en.vtt') as oldfile, open('newfile.txt', 'w') as newfile:    for line in oldfile:        if not any(bad_word at line since bad_word in bad_words):
            newfile.write(line)


with open('newfile.txt') as result:    uniqlines = set(result.readlines())
    with open('sub_out.txt', 'w') as rmdup:        mylst = map(lambda each: each.strip("&gt;&gt;"), uniqlines)
        print(mylst)
        rmdup.writelines(set(mylst))

Output newfile.txt:

I’m Elon Musk.
What is your claim to fame?
I’m the stifter of
Tesla.com.

Answer 4

Another simple road to download show from YouTube is to transfer Google2SRT. Google2SRT is a free, opened source program for Windows, Mac and Linux that is able to download, save and convert multiple subtitles from YouTube movies.

Usage

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1. Pasty the URL in the Google subtitles text box and click Read.

2. Selected this language by selecting the appropriate check box provided and press Hinfahren.

3. View of destination folder that was in in and SRT subtitles textbox to locate to SRT related.