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xloem / vtt2text.py
Last active October 9, 2023 16:17 — 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.