Downloading transcripts for later reading?

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Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites

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Downloading transcripts for later reading? #25471

Closed junomarian closed 4 years ago

junomarian commented 4 years ago

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WRITE QUESTION HERE Is it possible to batch download video transcripts in text format for later reading? Want to download some playlists of TedEX lectures transcripts in readable text format. how i can do this? I am only able to download those srt with text with timestamp.

ghost commented 4 years ago

You can download only the subtitles and then convert them to plain text.