Transcripts are separate from the video, often appearing on the side or below a video player.Subtitles can be in the same language of the video or translated into multiple languages.Transcripts only capture the language in the video.Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash Differences between transcripts and subtitles And both are text files that can be updated in a text editor. Both can be used to follow along with the video without relying on hearing the speech itself. Transcription is writing down text that captures all of the speech in a video. Creating transcripts and subtitles starts with transcription. Writing video subtitles to: are transcripts and how are they different from subtitles and how can they be used? Let’s start with what they have in common, discuss the differences, and see how easy it is to convert YouTube captions to text files. $ youtube-dl -output '%(autonumber)s.%(ext)s' -skip-download -sub-format 'ttml' -write-sub '' $ youtube-dl -output '%(autonumber)s.%(ext)s' -skip-download -sub-format 'vtt' -write-sub '' YouTube only offers ttml and vtt files, as far as I can tell (and I'm able to download subtitles in both formats): $ youtube-dl -list-subs '' While it's possible to request a specific format using the -sub-format option, please note that the availability of such format depends on the website. I don't know why youtube-dl won't download in any other format, even if told to do so, a glitch still unresolved When downloading from playlists, you may use %(playlist_index)s instead. Note that %(autonumber)s is needed to concatenate the files in order. Writing video subtitles to: 00002.en.vtt w3_0圆oaDmI: Downloading video info webpage 5wpm-gesOY: Downloading video info webpage It seems that youtube-dl doesn't support such feature, but you can use cat to concatenate all the downloaded files: $ youtube-dl -output '%(autonumber)s.%(ext)s' -skip-download -write-sub '' ''
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