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Youtube Captions scraper

Fetch youtube user submitted or fallback to auto-generated captions

Installation

  • > npm install -S youtube-captions-scraper OR
  • > yarn add youtube-captions-scraper

Usage

// ES6 / TypeScript
import { getSubtitles } from 'youtube-captions-scraper';

getSubtitles({
  videoID: 'XXXXX', // youtube video id
  lang: 'fr' // default: `en`
}).then(captions => {
  console.log(captions);
});

// ES5
var getSubtitles = require('youtube-captions-scraper').getSubtitles;

getSubtitles({
  videoID: 'XXXXX', // youtube video id
  lang: 'fr' // default: `en`
}).then(function(captions) {
  console.log(captions);
});

Captions will be an array of object of this format:

{
  "start": Number,
  "dur": Number,
  "text": String
}

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