By skyforbes Normally, from Youtube we look to download either a video or the audio, but in my case, being a language enthusiast, I was interested in downloading the subtitles.
And not only as a language enthusiast, but nowadays, thanks to artificial intelligence, we can get a lot of information from a video thanks to these subtitles.
In this story I will share with you a small Python script that will allow you to see the available subtitles for a video and download it to your computer.
Why subtitles are important?
The subtitles provide us with valuable information when we want to go deeper into a video. Thanks to artificial intelligence, we can use these subtitles to extract the information we really need from the video.
Of course this job of transcribing a video to use artificial intelligence can be achieved with some applications such as NotebookLM, but by downloading these subtitles we can use any other artificial intelligence model.
For me, for example, I find them very useful when learning languages, as I like to get frequency listings from the subtitles:
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