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<p><a href="https://hex.pm/packages/youtube_captions"><img src="https://img.shields.io/hexpm/v/youtube_captions.svg" alt="Module Version"/></a>
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<a href="https://github.com/Valian/youtube_captions/blob/main/LICENSE.md"><img src="https://img.shields.io/hexpm/l/youtube_captions.svg" alt="License"/></a></p><p>An elixir library for fetching Youtube Captions without API key. Uses <a href="https://github.com/wojtekmach/req">Req</a> under the hood.</p><h2 id="installation" class="section-heading">
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<p>The package can be installed by adding <code class="inline">youtube_captions</code> to your list of dependencies in <code class="inline">mix.exs</code>:</p><pre><code class="makeup elixir" translate="no"><span class="kd">def</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nf">deps</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k" data-group-id="1410703989-1">do</span><span class="w">
</span><span class="p" data-group-id="1410703989-2">[</span><span class="w">
</span><span class="p" data-group-id="1410703989-3">{</span><span class="ss">:youtube_captions</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&quot;~&gt; 0.1.0&quot;</span><span class="p" data-group-id="1410703989-3">}</span><span class="w">
</span><span class="p" data-group-id="1410703989-2">]</span><span class="w">
</span><span class="k" data-group-id="1410703989-1">end</span></code></pre><p>And run <a href="https://hexdocs.pm/mix/Mix.Tasks.Deps.Get.html"><code class="inline">mix deps.get</code></a>.</p><h2 id="usage" class="section-heading">
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<p>First find video identifier. You can find it in the YouTube URL <code class="inline">?v=VIDEO_ID</code>.</p><p>Then you can download captions by calling <code class="inline">YoutubeCaptions.get_subtitles(video_id, language)</code>. Language is optional and defaults to <code class="inline">en</code>. </p><p>If successfull, you'll get list of subtitles in format <code class="inline">%{start: float(), duration: float(), text: String.t()}</code></p><h3 id="examples" class="section-heading">
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<pre><code class="makeup elixir" translate="no"><span class="nc">YoutubeCaptions</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get_subtitles</span><span class="p" data-group-id="1180671906-1">(</span><span class="s">&quot;JvBT4XBdoUE&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&quot;en&quot;</span><span class="p" data-group-id="1180671906-1">)</span><span class="w">
</span><span class="c1">#=&gt; {:ok,</span><span class="w">
</span><span class="c1">#=&gt; [</span><span class="w">
</span><span class="c1">#=&gt; %{start: 0.99, text: &quot;[Music]&quot;, duration: 6.87},</span><span class="w">
</span><span class="c1">#=&gt; %{start: 14.42, text: &quot;thank you so hello everyone and thank&quot;, duration: 3.66},</span><span class="w">
</span><span class="c1">#=&gt; ...</span><span class="w">
</span><span class="c1">#=&gt; ]}</span><span class="w">
</span><span class="c1"># You can customize Req options by passing third parameter</span><span class="w">
</span><span class="nc">YoutubeCaptions</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get_subtitles</span><span class="p" data-group-id="1180671906-2">(</span><span class="s">&quot;JvBT4XBdoUE&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&quot;en&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="ss">receive_timeout</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mi">10_000</span><span class="p" data-group-id="1180671906-2">)</span><span class="w">
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<p>Heavily inspired by <a href="https://github.com/algolia/youtube-captions-scraper">youtube-captions-scraper</a>.</p><h2 id="license" class="section-heading">
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