youtube-caption-scraper

A small zero-dependency* captions obtainer for YouTube

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* Zero-dependency in the browser, node version uses node-fetch

Installation

npm i -S youtube-caption-scraper

Usage

const Scraper = require('youtube-caption-scraper');
const scraper = new Scraper();
scraper.scrap('https://youtu.be/jNQXAC9IVRw', 'en', 'vtt');

API

Scraper~scrap

Param	Type	Default	Desciption
videoString	string	undefined	The video ID or the video URL
languageCode	string	'en'	The language code of the captions
format	string	'vtt'	The captions format