YouTube transcript to SRT / VTT subtitle files
Download YouTube captions as ready-to-use SRT and VTT subtitle text for any list of videos, plus the plain transcript and timestamped segments. Use it to add subtitles to re-uploads, feed video editors, or build caption search. Manual captions preferred, auto-generated as fallback.
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