Closed Captions in YouTube API v3

Question

I need to read closed caption text from 3rd party, publicly available YouTube videos in my java webapp i.e. I have NOT uploaded the content.

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Answer 1

We are hoping to have Captions support on Data API v3 soon. You won't need to scrape the website.

Update: This has been implemented now. The docs can be found here.

Answer 2

They finally introduced the feature:

https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/captions