Youtube Captions Scraper (with React Native support)

Note: This is forked from @drorgl/youtube-captions-scraper and React Native support has been added.

* Fetch Caption Tracks
* Fetch Subtitles by language
* Fetch Auto-Generated Captions
* Fetch Full Text of Captions

Installation

> npm install youtube-captions-scraper-react-native

Usage

``typescript
import {
YoutubeCaptions,
getSubtitles,
getSubtitlesContent
} from 'youtube-captions-scraper';

//Get Subtitles for Video
getSubtitles({
videoID: 'XXXXX', // youtube video id
lang: 'fr' // default: en
}).then(captions => {
console.log(captions);
});

//Get full transcription as one string
const subtitles = await getSubtitlesContent({ videoID: "P-ygmGxuiEI" });

let youtubeCaptions = new YoutubeCaptions('XXXXX' /youtube video id/);

//retrieve caption tracks
let captionTracks = await youtubeCaptions.getCaptionTracks();

//retrieve subtitles by language
let subtitles = await youtubeCaptions.getSubtitles('en' /optional language/);

`

Captions will be an array of object of this format:

`typescript
{
"start": Number,
"dur": Number,
"text": String, //HTML stripped subtitles
"htmlText":String
}
``