I am downloading WebVTT files from youtube using youtube-dl.
A typical file looks like this:
WEBVTT
Kind: captions
Language: en
00:00:00.730 --> 00:00:05.200 align:start position:0%
[Applause]
00:00:05.200 --> 00:00:05.210 align:start position:0%
[Applause]
00:00:05.210 --> 00:00:11.860 align:start position:0%
[Applause]
hi<00:00:06.440><c> I'm</c><00:00:07.440><c> here</c><00:00:07.740><c> to</c><00:00:08.160><c> talk</c><00:00:08.429><c> to</c><00:00:09.019><c> share</c><00:00:10.019><c> an</c><00:00:10.469><c> idea</c><00:00:10.820><c> to</c>
00:00:11.860 --> 00:00:11.870 align:start position:0%
hi I'm here to talk to share an idea to
00:00:11.870 --> 00:00:15.890 align:start position:0%
hi I'm here to talk to share an idea to
communicate<00:00:12.920><c> but</c><00:00:13.920><c> what</c><00:00:14.790><c> is</c><00:00:14.940><c> communication</c>
00:00:15.890 --> 00:00:15.900 align:start position:0%
communicate but what is communication
I would like to get a text file with this:
hi I'm here to talk to share an idea to
communicate but what is communication
Using code I found online, I got this:
cat output.vtt | sed "s/^[0-9]*[0-9\:\.\ \>\-]*//g" | grep -v "^WEBVTT\|^Kind: cap\|^Language" | awk 'BEGIN{ RS="\n\n+"; RS="\n\n" }NR>=2{ print }' > dialogues.txt
But it is far from perfect. I get a lot of useless spaces, and all the sentences are displayed twice. Would you mind helping me? Somebody asked a similar question before but the answer submitted did not work for me.
Thanks!
You might be able to do something similar to this:
sed -e '1,4d' -E -e '/^$|]|>$|%$/d' output.vtt | awk '!seen[$0]++' > dialogues.txt
sed removes the first 4 linessed then deletes any blank lines, or ones that contain ], or end in >, %.awk removes duplicate lines.Result:
hi I'm here to talk to share an idea to
communicate but what is communication
You might have to tweak it a bit, although it should result in more along the lines of what you want.