download-youtube-subtitle 0.0.3

download youtube subtitles(closed caption, cc) as txt or json

Download Youtube Subtitle

Download youtube subtitles(closed caption, cc) or srt as txt or json.

Features

1. Support exportting translation at the same time which is useful for language study.
2. Support proxy for youtube, follow the step at Using Anaconda behind a company proxy — Anaconda documentation.
3. Full test with traivis to make sure things are on rail.

python version of algolia/youtube-captions-scraper: Fetch youtube user submitted or fallback to auto-generated captions

Example

dl-youtube-cc 5tKOV0KqPlg --translation zh-Hans

https://youtube.com/get_video_info?video_id=5tKOV0KqPlg
---------00:01----------
All right, well, uh,
let's get back to real life
好吧，恩，让我们回到现实生活中

---------00:04----------
or whatever we're calling
this thing now.
或我们现在所说的这个东西。 
// continue

dl-youtube-cc 5tKOV0KqPlg --translation False --to_json=True

[
    {
        "start": "1.367",
        "dur": "3.137",
        "text": "All right, well, uh,\nlet's get back to real life"
    },
]
// continue

Install and Run

Install vai download-youtube-subtitle · PyPI

1. pip install download-youtube-subtitle or pip install download-youtube-subtitle --user
2. dl-youtube-cc -h

run in cli

SYNOPSIS
    dl-youtube-cc VIDEOID <flags>

DESCRIPTION
    Examples:
    dl-youtube-cc 5tKOV0KqPlg --save_to_file=False # print stuff in console
    dl-youtube-cc 5tKOV0KqPlg --output_file='test.txt' # print stuff in named file
    dl-youtube-cc 5tKOV0KqPlg --to_json=True # print stuff in json
    dl-youtube-cc 5tKOV0KqPlg --translation 'ja' # print stuff in named file
    dl-youtube-cc 5tKOV0KqPlg --translation False # without translation

POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
    VIDEOID
        string, the id of youtube video, the string after 'v=' in a youtube video link

FLAGS
    --output_file=OUTPUT_FILE
        string, default to vidio title
    --save_to_file=SAVE_TO_FILE
        bool, default to True, True or False
    --translation=TRANSLATION
        bool or string, default to 'zh-Hans' for simplified Chinese, False or lang code, see ./lang_code.json for full list
    --to_json=TO_JSON
        bool, default to False, export caption to json

Use in Code

import download_youtube_subtitle.common as common
import download_youtube_subtitle.main as download_youtube_subtitle
# ...

Development

Environment Setup

for conda

pip install 'fire' 'requests' 'IPython'

Usage

python main.py -h
python main.py VIDEOID

Tests

cd tests
./run.sh
./test_cli.sh

Ref

deployment - How can I use setuptools to generate a console_scripts entry point which calls python -m mypackage? - Stack Overflow

Packaging Python Projects — Python Packaging User Guide