It's also useful to have a transcript of an unlisted video if you want to review your script.

Transcripts are handy to skim through to quickly get a gist of the highlights of a video without having to rewatch the whole video again. There are probably a number of reasons you’re looking for the easiest way to get the full written transcript of any YouTube video (even if the video doesn't have subtitles enabled). I wrote my own C# program that extracts the data for a different purpose and it took less than two hours.A transcript of a video is the written or typed text of whatever is spoken in the video. 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. Both items are titled timedtext? plus a bunch of variables.

Two items will come up in the Network tab in the Developer Tools. Click the transcript icon just below the video.Click on the Network tab in the Developer Tools.You may have to click on some empty space in the page so that the video is not active. Wait for it to play if there is an advertisement. Using Google Chrome in this example, navigate to the video then follow these steps:

Otherwise, if it is not your video, the best method (only method) is to get the xml file from the Developer tools. 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.

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