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The CURL formatting of a request to YouTube's captions API
curl 'https://www.youtube.com/api/timedtext?v=CWWSovO3Txc&ei=guQhZpu5A-joir4Pv7CA-Ag&caps=asr&opi=112496729&xoaf=4&hl=en&ip=0.0.0.0&ipbits=0&expire=1713522418&sparams=ip%2Cipbits%2Cexpire%2Cv%2Cei%2Ccaps%2Copi%2Cxoaf&signature=2BD5DB2D79EEDB548FD23E692D705C8E4E718EC8.5F6EC5DEA41D55CFEA50CB2C67D3C30CE5CA6516&key=yt8&kind=asr&lang=en&fmt=json3&xorb=2&xobt=3&xovt=3&cbrand=google&cbr=Chrome&cbrver=124.0.0.0&c=WEB&cver=2.20240416.05.00&cplayer=UNIPLAYER&cmodel=chromebook&cos=CrOS&cosver=14541.0.0&cplatform=DESKTOP' \
-H 'sec-ch-ua: "Chromium";v="124", "Google Chrome";v="124", "Not-A.Brand";v="99"' \
-H 'X-YouTube-Device: cbr=Chrome&cbrand=google&cbrver=124.0.0.0&ceng=WebKit&cengver=537.36&cmodel=chromebook&cos=CrOS&cosver=14541.0.0&cplatform=DESKTOP' \
-H 'X-YouTube-Page-Label: youtube.desktop.web_20240416_05_RC00' \
-H 'sec-ch-ua-arch: "x86"' \
-H 'X-YouTube-Page-CL: 625331421' \
-H 'sec-ch-ua-platform-version: "15786.48.0"' \
-H 'X-YouTube-Utc-Offset: -360' \
-H 'X-Goog-AuthUser: 0' \
-H 'sec-ch-ua-full-version-list: "Chromium";v="124.0.6367.60", "Google Chrome";v="124.0.6367.60", "Not-A.Brand";v="99.0.0.0"' \
-H 'sec-ch-ua-bitness: "64"' \
-H 'sec-ch-ua-model: ""' \
-H 'X-YouTube-Time-Zone: America/Denver' \
-H 'sec-ch-ua-wow64: ?0' \
-H 'sec-ch-ua-platform: "Chrome OS"' \
-H 'sec-ch-ua-mobile: ?0' \
-H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 14541.0.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36' \
-H 'X-Youtube-Chrome-Connected: source=Chrome,mode=0,enable_account_consistency=true,supervised=false,consistency_enabled_by_default=true' \
-H 'sec-ch-ua-full-version: "124.0.6367.60"' \
-H 'Referer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWWSovO3Txc' \
-H 'X-YouTube-Client-Name: 1' \
-H 'X-YouTube-Client-Version: 2.20240416.05.00' \
-H 'X-Youtube-Identity-Token: QUFFLUhqblV1dTExb05Gd3ZYcWhKUkZBZDl6bEpiVWZhUXw=' \
-H 'X-Goog-Visitor-Id: CgswQ1paYVU4Z1l6ZyjtyIexBjIKCgJVUxIEGgAgLQ%3D%3D' \
-H 'X-YouTube-Ad-Signals: dt=1713497216083&flash=0&frm&u_tz=-360&u_his=3&u_h=1080&u_w=1920&u_ah=1080&u_aw=1920&u_cd=24&bc=31&bih=959&biw=1920&brdim=-1010%2C1080%2C-1010%2C1080%2C1920%2C1080%2C1920%2C1080%2C1920%2C959&vis=1&wgl=true&ca_type=image&bid=ANyPxKpLoDUXqm3n5v5-6_5PDPUha21qv66KrOmbMX5Lon1mUsyu3eKrqqHw1zchk-Wr6qvVfyYzklxm38MSLZQ9Fjaaz6El3w'
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