How to get "transcript" in youtube-api v3

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Ali Naddaf picture Ali Naddaf · Dec 27, 2012 · Viewed 30.2k times · Source

I have started using v3 of the YouTube apis on an android device, using the java client library. Some videos that I am interested in have transcripts that I can access on the web interface (like educational videos). Is there a way to access the transcripts, if present, using the v3 apis?

Thanks

Answer

Dev Doomari picture Dev Doomari · Feb 4, 2014

I had the same problem with this... and spent like a week looking for a solution until I hit this:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10036796/how-to-extract-subtitles-from-youtube-videos

Just do a GET request on: http://video.google.com/timedtext?lang={LANG}&v={VIDEOID} You don't need any api/oauth/etc. to access this.

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