How to download subtitles from YouTube

What for

Download subtitles on the device will be useful if:

you are used to advance to download foreign videos to watch them later offline, and it does not know the language perfectly;

you need not video, namely the transcript, because the same TED reports are easy to read, without wasting precious megabytes to download the video;

you are learning a foreign language and is useful for you to make out the writing unfamiliar phrases and dialogues.

How to download subtitles

1. Through third-party web services

The easiest way to download subtitles - a service DownSub, Which Layfhaker wrote in YouTube hacks review helpful. From you only need to insert the home page DownSub link to the video and click on the download button. This can be done both in the desktop and mobile browser on an iOS or Android.

Depending on the video, the service will offer upload subtitles in any of the available languages. And if the text in the desired language is not listed, you can download an automatically generated translation. He is far from perfect, but nevertheless such a possibility is present.

Subtitles are downloaded as a file with the extension SRT. It can be opened in most modern media players or in a text editor.

If you need to download the video with subtitles, offers service YouSubtitles. It works the same way as DownSub, only, in addition to SRT-file, you can download the video itself.

2. Via original YouTube feature

YouTube has a function to output the full text of video decoding, which can be used to copy the subtitles from the browser as plain text.

To save so subtitles, click on the icon in the form of three points, which is located just below the built-in player, and click "View video decoding."

When the right of the player will be subtitles, select the desired language under them, select all the available text and copy it using the combination Ctrl + C. After that decoding can be inserted into any text editor.