Turn YouTube videos into SRT subtitle files
Returns each video’s captions already formatted as SRT — numbered cues with HH:MM:SS,mmm timings — ready to save as a .srt file and load into a player, editor or translation tool. Human-written captions win, auto-generated ones are the fallback, and the row says which was used. Switch the format to VTT for web players. $0.95 per 1,000 transcripts ($5.00 from October 20, 2026), proxy included.
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