Youtube Captions Scraper
Note: This is forked from syzer/youtube-captions-scraper, typescriptified and added a few other options
- Fetch Caption Tracks
- Fetch Subtitles by language
- Fetch Auto-Generated Captions
- Fetch Full Text of Captions
- Optional external HTTP requester
Installation
> npm install @drorgl/youtube-captions-scraper
Usage
import {
YoutubeCaptions,
getSubtitles,
getSubtitlesContent
} from 'youtube-captions-scraper';
//Get Subtitles for Video
getSubtitles({
videoID: 'XXXXX', // youtube video id
lang: 'fr' // default: `en`
}).then(captions => {
console.log(captions);
});
//Get full transcription as one string
const subtitles = await getSubtitlesContent({ videoID: "P-ygmGxuiEI" });
let youtubeCaptions = new YoutubeCaptions('XXXXX' /*youtube video id*/);
//retrieve caption tracks
let captionTracks = await youtubeCaptions.getCaptionTracks();
//retrieve subtitles by language
let subtitles = await youtubeCaptions.getSubtitles('en' /*optional language*/);Captions will be an array of object of this format:
{
"start": Number,
"dur": Number,
"text": String, //HTML stripped subtitles
"htmlText":String
}