

However, it's very old technology that they no longer make and it won't work on online videos.

I used an ATI card on a desktop that grabs the closed-captioning from the TV or video. I run this site: and for years we've had transcripts from the daytime soaps (and a few primetime shows). I just know HTML and a few other minor things. Is there any way to extract the SRT from streaming videos without downloading them? Or is there any way to download a streaming video from, say, cbs.com or HULU or iTunes (not Youtube) with the SRT file intact (assuming they use SRT)? Please bear in mind that I'm not really a programmer.

So maybe someone has a suggestion on this already being possible? Please share specifics.I found this, but it seems to be about streaming videos that have been downloaded. I went to yt-dlp GitHub section and it said you'll be blocked if you make a mistake in template to submit. When you have your answer, you can add them to Edit > General download options. So you need to ask someone else, perhaps on Reddit or the yt-dlp developers themselves.įor comparison, I thought these download options would do that, but they don't: I experimented with this, but I didn't find the right combination of download options that guarantees "either automatically-generated English subtiles or creator-added subtitles". for English - whether they are added by Creator / YouTuber or auto generated by YouTube engine.īecause it seems a bunch of times I am not getting any subtitles/ cc with the video? Subtitles > Options: Download Automatic Subtitles file (YouTube only) vs Download Subtitles files for these languages: English? I posted this initially under TarTube as linked and quoted below:

We strongly recommend using the yt-dlp fork Follow the Rules
