Scrap youtube auto-generated captions
npm install youtube-captions-scraper> Fetch youtube user submitted or fallback to auto-generated captions
* > npm install -S youtube-captions-scraper OR
* > yarn add youtube-captions-scraper
``js
// 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:
`js``
{
"start": Number,
"dur": Number,
"text": String
}