Install yt-dip to work:
pip install yt-dlp
Get the subtitle in youtube with bash command:
url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrQJaLemaoE"
yt-dlp --write-auto-sub --sub-lang en --skip-download $url --output /tmp/sub.txt
How can get the substitle with pure python script?
import yt_dlp
url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrQJaLemaoE"
ydl_opts = {
"write_auto_sub":True,
"sub_lang":'en',
"skip_download":True,
"output":'/tmp/sub.txt',
}
with yt_dlp.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
ydl.download(url)
It can't download substitute with pure python code,how to fix it?
import yt_dlp
url = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrQJaLemaoE"
ydl_opts = {
'writeautomaticsub': True,
'subtitlesformat': 'srt',
'skip_download': True,
'outtmpl': '/tmp/sub.srt'
}
with yt_dlp.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
ydl.download([url])
The key options are:
writeautomaticsub: Download automatic subtitles
subtitlesformat: Format of subtitles to download (srt, ass, etc)
skip_download: Only download subtitles, not video
outtmpl: Output filename template for subtitles
This will download the best available subtitles for the video to the specified file.