Youtube Captions scraper
Fetch youtube user submitted or fallback to auto-generated captions
Installation
> npm install -S youtube-captions-scraperOR> yarn add youtube-captions-scraper
Usage
// ES6 / TypeScript
import { getSubtitles } from 'youtube-captions-scraper';
getSubtitles({
videoID: 'XXXXX', // youtube video id
lang: 'fr' // default: `en`
}).then(captions => {
console.log(captions);
});
// ES5
var getSubtitles = require('youtube-captions-scraper').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
}