Get closed caption “cc” for Youtube video

Question

Does any one know how to get the CC for any Youtube video that has the caption available? I know on the API 2.0 documentation mentions that it is only available for the owne

Answer 1

If video.google.com does not fetch your closed caption file OR you don't want your file in XML format, but would rather SRT (see note below), try:

CC SUBS

NOTE: SRT can be transformed into virtually ANY format - either using free subtitling tools OR by replacing \n\n with |, \n with ; and then | into \n, you get a CSV file that can be opened in a spreadsheet, for example.