[NFBCS] Subtitles

[Michael McQuaid]

Here is the official site for youtube-dl:

https://youtube-dl.org/

There are three downloads on the front page. You should use youtube-dl.exe
if you're using Windows10.

Put the downloaded program somewhere in your path, except don't put it in
C:\Windows\System32.

You also need to download

https://download.microsoft.com/download/1/6/5/165255E7-1014-4D0A-B094-B6A430A6BFFC/vcredist_x86.exe

unless you already have it.

After you have both in a directory on your path, use the command line to
navigate to where you want to save the subtitles. Then say:

youtube-dl --write-sub URLOFVIDEO

where URLOFVIDEO is the URL of the video for which you want subtitles.

There may be more than one set of subtitles, in which case you may want to
do either

youtube-dl --list-subs URLOFVIDEO

to get a list of subtitles or

youtube-dl --all-subs URLOFVIDEO

to get all the available subtitles.

Feel free to email me if you have any questions or I can be of further
assistance.

- Mick

On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 3:17 PM Tracy Carcione via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> This is really great news.
> I usually use Youtube on my iPhone, but, if there's a real advantage, like
> getting the subtitles, I can just as easily use it with Windows10 and Jaws.
> Tracy
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NFBCS [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Michael McQuaid
> via NFBCS
> Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2022 1:54 PM
> To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
> Cc: Michael McQuaid; Tracy Carcione
> Subject: Re: [NFBCS] Subtitles
>
> With youtube-dl, a command line program, you can say --write-sub or
> --write-auto-sub to write a subtitle file or automatically generated
> subtitle file. There are also some command line options for telling what
> subtitles are available and for writing different formats. I can possibly
> give more info if you tell me your setup.
>
> - Mick
>
> On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 9:19 AM Tracy Carcione via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Is there any way to get access to subtitles?  Youtube would do for a
> start.
> > I am studying Irish Gaelic.  My sighted classmates can read the English
> > subtitles, and it would be handy if I could, too, but I haven't seen a
> way
> > to make it happen.
> >
> > It seems to me that someone has written out the subtitles, so it's
> > frustrating that I don't have access to that text.  But maybe someone
> knows
> > how I can get it?
> >
> > Tracy
> >
> >
> >
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