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I have started using v3 of the YouTube apis on an android device, using the java client library. Some videos that I am interested in have transcripts that I can access on the web interface (like educational videos). Is there a way to access the transcripts, if present, using the v3 apis?
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Beneath the video, click the More icon (three horizontal dots). Click Open transcript. This will open a timestamped list of captions to the side of the video. Press Ctrl + F (Windows) / Cmd + F (Mac) to open your browser's search function.
Youtube's automatic captions are very easy to set up. 1) Select the ellipses in the Youtube interface menu below the video and click on the 3 horizontal dots below the video and then click on 'open transcript' button.
I had the same problem with this... and spent like a week looking for a solution until I hit this:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10036796/how-to-extract-subtitles-from-youtube-videos
Just do a GET request on: http://video.google.com/timedtext?lang={LANG}&v={VIDEOID} You don't need any api/oauth/etc. to access this.
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