closed-captions

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 owner of the video... but I was able to get some of the video's caption even though I'm not the owner of any.... There are two APIs (or links to API) can be used. they both rout to timpedtext API. before I mention them we should note the parameters the API need. which are: lang: {en, fr,...} required. v: {video ID} required. name : the track name, Required only if it is set. (and with this is my problem.) tlang : translation to

I'm having problems extracting automatic captions from YouTube videos. I tried using the http://video.google.com/timedtext?type=track&v=3wszM2SA12E&name=Automatic&lang=en method, but that one only works for those videos, which have named tracks. For example, this one doesn't have any named tracks (only automatic caption) and doesn't load up: rrkrvAUbU9Y There are several web-applications out there which can do it (like http://www.serpsite.com/youtube-subtitles-download-tool/ and http://mo.dbxdb.com/ ), but I need a script, because I want to use it for my research. Anyone has any ideas what is