Subtitles within videos help non-native speakers clearly understand & follow what's going on while the video is playing. If you wish to take notes from a YouTube video, you will find this tip for extracting the subtitles from a YouTube video (that has subtitles) to be a time-saver. I have adapted this tip from an answer to a related question on the Quora website -
- Open the video page in Chrome browser (or any other browser that provides HTTP debugging/Developer Tools) and pause the video
- Right click anywhere on the page, and click on Inspect Element OR hit the F12 function key.
- Click on Network tab
- Under the Network tab look for an item called timedtext.
- Right click on it and open that file in a new tab.
- An xml file containing subtitles with their timestamps(the stuff inside of <>) opens up.
- Open up Microsoft Excel
- Copy paste the subtitles inside one cell
- Press Ctrl+H
- In the replace tab type <*> in the Find What textbox and leave the Replace With textbox blank, and click Replace All. The search expression will remove all tags within the original text.
[Update:16-July-2012] As per this WebApps StackExchange forum thread, there are two other ways to get the subtitles:
By specifying the language and VideoId in this generic URL - http://video.google.com/timedtext?lang=<LANG>&v=<VIDEOID> you can get an .xml file containing the subtitles in the desired language for a choosen video.
There is an open-source tool called Google2SRT that downloads all available subs from a YouTube video with one click & converts them into .srt format so that it can be used within media players like VLC Media Player.
Also see:
Low bandwidth? Try mobile version of popular websites on PC/laptop
HOW TO add subtitles to YouTube videos
Summaries of Google Webmaster Central YouTube videos
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