youtube-captions-scraper-fix

Youtube Captions scraper

Fetch youtube user submitted or fallback to auto-generated captions (Just a Fix to youtube-captions-scraper)

Installation

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

Usage

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

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

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