

Part 1: How to Get the Transcript Right from YouTube on Computer

With that being said, in the following sections, you will learn how to get the transcript of a YouTube video, how to automatically generate transcripts with YouTube, and how to use and permanently enable captions on YouTube. In addition, transcribing a video is also helpful in understanding the audio more clearly, and sometimes even to use them to create captions that can be further added to the clips using any professional tool like Wondershare Filmora, Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro X, etc. Therefore, such viewers may want to learn how to get transcript of YouTube video to make things convenient for them. I wrote my own C# program that extracts the data for a different purpose and it took less than two hours.Video transcripts are useful for those who find it challenging to follow along with the audio due to varied accents or compromised hearing senses. 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.

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.
