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Package detail

youtube-caption-scraper

Petrivah492ISC1.0.0

A zero-dependency caption scraper for YouTube ✨

youtube, caption, captions, scraper

readme

A small zero-dependency* captions obtainer for YouTube


* Zero-dependency in the browser, node version uses node-fetch

Installation

npm i -S youtube-caption-scraper

Usage

const Scraper = require('youtube-caption-scraper');
const scraper = new Scraper();
scraper.scrap('https://youtu.be/jNQXAC9IVRw', 'en', 'vtt');

API

Scraper~scrap

Param Type Default Desciption
videoString string undefined The video ID or the video URL
languageCode string 'en' The language code of the captions
format string 'vtt' The captions format