

You may not need the most high quality version of the video, check this link to see ways to select video quality

No reason I can see not to use it if youtube-dl can't manage to get the subtitles. It worked first time I tried it, and worked fast. only gets the subtitles or auto-generated subtitles from a video, not the video itself. Option 2: Download video with youtube-dl, subtitles with downsub But thankfully there are other tools that do that better. Sometimes you won't be able to get the subtitles, and the -write-auto-sub flag which is supposed to grab the auto-generated subtitles/closed-captioning does not work reliably. a subtitle file (in my experience it has downloaded.This command downloads two files, with the same name but different extensions: Option 1: Download video and subtitles with youtube-dl (definitely check out the docs for all options) Here are some things I learned today that can help get the job done: Downloading from YouTube, with subs: It's not immediately clear how to get this done, because it's a sort of old program, not updated frequently, and the error messages don't tell you exactly what's going wrong.

If you're using videos downloaded from YouTube, you're either getting auto-generated or creator-supplied subtitles. Videogrep can make supercuts from videos by referencing the content and timestamps subtitle file.
