faridcher
/ vtt2text.py
Created
July 10, 2026 06:13
— forked from glasslion/vtt2text.py
This script convert youtube subtitle file(vtt) to plain text.
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| """ | |
| Convert YouTube subtitles(vtt) to human readable text. | |
| Download only subtitles from YouTube with youtube-dl: | |
| youtube-dl --skip-download --convert-subs vtt <video_url> | |
| Note that default subtitle format provided by YouTube is ass, which is hard | |
| to process with simple regex. Luckily youtube-dl can convert ass to vtt, which | |
| is easier to process. |