youtube-caption-scraper

A zero-dependency caption scraper for YouTube ✨

Usage no npm install needed!

<script type="module">
  import youtubeCaptionScraper from 'https://cdn.skypack.dev/youtube-caption-scraper';
</script>

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