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yt-caption-extractor
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Extract YouTube Video lyrics and video information.
npm i yt-caption-extractor
import { getCaptions, getVideoInfo } from 'yt-caption-extractor'
const captions = await getCaptions('SX_ViT4Ra7k')
console.log(captions)
const videoInfo = await getVideoInfo('SX_ViT4Ra7k')
console.log(videoInfo)
This library is tailor-made for maru.re, designed to extract lyrics and video information from YouTube videos. Initially, I considered using ytdl-core, but due to its large size and lack of ESM support, so I took an afternoon to create this library.
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Extract YouTube Video captions
We found that yt-caption-extractor demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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