How to Download Subtitles as Text From Youtube

hello and thank you for joining me for this tutorial my name is david from freelancer insight com in this video i will show you how to download subtitles as text from youtube now europe if you're pondering what you need to download texts our subtitles from youtube is probably because maybe you have a video on youtube that is captioned and all you need is a transcript for your own purposes maybe to write a blog post or something of the sort number two maybe you're a freelancer and you just landed a contract or a job only to realize the video already has captions now there is an advantage for doing this is that it makes work easier the few disadvantages that are available is that the text in Los punctuated when you download it from youtube and number two if if the video is auto caption by YouTube you need to ensure that you do proof read the captions to ensure that they may come out as they supposed to come out that is the grammar is correct the punctuation and everything now i would love to speed on my transcription process I don't know if you would but join me as I show you how to download subtitles as text from YouTube for this video i will be using google chrome and mozilla firefox now please note that depending on the version of Chrome or Firefox that you using the interface may be different for this process to work all you need to do is just paste in a code inside the web console or Vader Firefox or Mozilla and you will also generate the captions as text just look what I do for the following videos I will begin with Google Chrome please note that you don't have to to write the text as you see it i will provide it in the description below now i have my video open here on youtube and as you can see it has a symbol of CC meaning that it is already captioned and if i play it and see the text appear here now all I need to do is just come up to the right where you go to the menu click on click on that and then click on more tools and then just go over to the developer tools from the developer tools it is possible to navigate to where the console is if you're not seeing is just click on these maybe it's somewhere here just click on console and now all you need to do is just paste this text now we provide it below just copy it and then just paste it in here just click on that and just control V once you do that just hit enter and automatically the transcript before for the whole video is unleashed now the next process is just it is just right clicking saying save us now all you need to do is just change the extension of this video let's say maybe david dot HTML now once you download that you can just click on it and it will automatically open up as text and just copy this text and paste it in your preferred text editing software maybe if it's word or notepad just paste it in there and do your edits or if you can just import it into Express scribe or whichever transcriptions of prodigy using now that is the process on google chrome one on firefox the process almost just similar and all you need to do is just copy the code again and also on the right just click on on the menu bar and then on the developer once the Developer tab opens just click on the web console include it will populate down here just click on this inside here and hit control V and then enter automatically script just pops of sunscreen it's that easy to to actually do this whole process and for you to just go back and just that trans doing your thing proofreading punctuating and checking on the grammar and everything just copy it and paste it whatever you want if it's a notepad or word or Express scribe just do that it's that simple this process will help you increase your speed of transcription by just giving you the option to proofread and ensure that everything is correct your clients may end up giving you more work depending on how fast you do the job and this process has worked for me many times the only problem is that as I mentioned you need to proofread proofread proofread punctuate and it's it's just that easy thank you so much for watching this video kindly subscribe to my channel by clicking on the on the like below and I look forward to seeing you soon thank you