Extract Youtube Subtitles

Here's a simple way to extract You Tube video subtitles (only for those that are autogenerated or uploaded to You Tube and only if author settings allow I think)

without too many scripts and commands (but need your cut and paste skills)

Eg video is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcqZHYo7ONs

Use the video's coded name : zcqZHYo7ONs

and add to the end of this :

http://video.google.com/timedtext?lang=en&v=

And form the combined text below

http://video.google.com/timedtext?lang=en&v=zcqZHYo7ONs

Paste this into Chrome browser and you will see text eg.

.<text start="261.19" dur="3.28">

of a comet, what happens to the orbit of the moon?”

</text>

It almost sounds like a MinutePhysics video… but you’re going to have to go to Brilliant.org

</text>

to solve it (or one of their many others) – and when you do, use the URL brilliant.org/minutephysics

</text>

<text start="274.87" dur="2.01">to let Brilliant know you came from here.</text>

</transcript>

Other command line or browswer methods exist (by programmers) eg .

youtube-dl at https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl

Youtube Auto Subtitle Download at https://github.com/1c7/Youtube-Auto-Subtitle-Download