https://github.com/alyetama/yt-cc-dl

Command-line program to download cleaned up closed captions (subtitles) of channels from YouTube.com in JSON format
https://github.com/alyetama/yt-cc-dl

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Command-line program to download cleaned up closed captions (subtitles) of channels from YouTube.com in JSON format

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/alyetama/yt-cc-dl
• Owner: Alyetama
• License: mit
• Created: 2022-11-29T16:06:57.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-12-27T17:13:50.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-05-22T10:56:41.446Z (about 1 year ago)
• Topics: cc, closed-captions, downloader, subtitles, youtube, yt-dlp
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 13.7 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Yt-cc-dl

🚀 Command-line program to download cleaned up closed captions (subtitles) of channels from YouTube.com in JSON format.

[![Supported Python versions](https://img.shields.io/badge/Python-%3E=3.7-blue.svg)](https://www.python.org/downloads/) [![PEP8](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code%20style-PEP%208-orange.svg)](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/) 

## Requirements

- 🐍 [python>=3.7](https://www.python.org/downloads/)

## ⬇️ Installation

```sh

pip install -U yt-cc-dl

```

## ⌨️ Usage

```

➜ yt-cc-dl --help

usage: yt-cc-dl [-h] [-o OUTPUT_DIR] [-l LANGUAGES] [-i INDENT] [-r] [-d]

              channel [channel ...]

positional arguments:

  channel               Single or multiple YouTube channel URL(s)

options:

  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

  -o OUTPUT_DIR, --output-dir OUTPUT_DIR

                        Output directory name or path (default: channel name)

  -l LANGUAGES, --languages LANGUAGES

                        Comma-separated list of languages to download (can be

                        regex). The list may contain "all" for all available

                        languages. The language can be prefixed with a "-" to

                        exclude it from the requested languages (e.g.,

                        all,-live_chat)

  -i INDENT, --indent INDENT

                        Indentation size in the output JSON files (None by

                        default)

  -r, --rich-data       Add a unique index and include the title and thumbnail

                        in every subtitle entry (useful for Meilisearch)

  -d, --disable-multithreading

                        Disable multithreading

```

## 📝 Todo

- [ ] Enable downloading the cc of a single video.