From 5129f09f59e733b4d543b5978a57776cd6a4e45e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "B.Hariprasad" <hariprasad19036@cse.ssn.edu.in>
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2021 22:43:11 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] python3 script for downloading subtitles from youtube video

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 subtitle_downloader/README.md              | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 subtitle_downloader/requirements.txt       |  1 +
 subtitle_downloader/subtitle_downloader.py | 18 +++++++++++++++
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 create mode 100644 subtitle_downloader/README.md
 create mode 100644 subtitle_downloader/requirements.txt
 create mode 100644 subtitle_downloader/subtitle_downloader.py

diff --git a/subtitle_downloader/README.md b/subtitle_downloader/README.md
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+# Subtitle Downloader
+```
+This folder contains a python3 script to download subtitles from youtube videos, provided that they have subtitles.
+```
+
+# Requirements
+1. youtube_transcript_api
+        
+```
+pip install youtube_transcript_api
+```
+<p align='center'>or</p>
+
+```
+pip install -r requirements.txt
+```
+
+# How this script works
+* Just execute the subtitle_downloader.py file with the youtube video link as a command line argument 
+    
+```
+python subtitle_downloader.py <video link>
+```
+
+* A new file named subtitle.txt is created in the same directory.
+
+* This file contains the subtitles of the video given as argument along with timestamps.
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diff --git a/subtitle_downloader/requirements.txt b/subtitle_downloader/requirements.txt
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+youtube_transcript_api==0.4.1
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diff --git a/subtitle_downloader/subtitle_downloader.py b/subtitle_downloader/subtitle_downloader.py
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+# Importing necessary modules
+import sys
+from youtube_transcript_api import YouTubeTranscriptApi
+
+if len(sys.argv) != 2:
+    print("Enter valid number of arguments")
+    print("Try python subtitle_downloader.py <video link>")
+    sys.exit()
+
+# The list of dictionaries obtained by the the get_transcript() function
+# is stored in sub variable
+url = sys.argv[1].split("?v=")[1]
+sub = YouTubeTranscriptApi.get_transcript(url)
+
+# Writing subtitles into a file.
+with open("subtitles.txt", "w") as f:
+    for i in sub:
+        f.write("{}\n".format(i))