Unable to download subtitles for some YouTube videos. #300

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opened 2026-02-20 21:08:33 -05:00 by deekerman · 0 comments

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2026-02-20 21:08:33 -05:00

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Originally created by @chalet16 on GitHub (Jul 25, 2012).

I had used youtube-dl to download hundreds of videos with subtitles. I found one video that a subtitle is available on YouTube but youtube-dl is unable to fetch it.

This video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hO3MrzPa0A

I found that swf player on youtube download subtitle from this URL (which is work).

http://www.youtube.com/api/timedtext?lang=en&name=English&v=5hO3MrzPa0A

But youtube-dl is unable to download it. Later, I found that youtube-dl download subtitle from different URL.
http://video.google.com/timedtext?hl=en&lang=%s&v=%s

I found only about 1% of clip I had downloaded have this problem, but I would very appreciate if this issue would have been resolved.

Thank you :)

Originally created by @chalet16 on GitHub (Jul 25, 2012). I had used youtube-dl to download hundreds of videos with subtitles. I found one video that a subtitle is available on YouTube but youtube-dl is unable to fetch it. This video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hO3MrzPa0A I found that swf player on youtube download subtitle from this URL (which is work). http://www.youtube.com/api/timedtext?lang=en&name=English&v=5hO3MrzPa0A But youtube-dl is unable to download it. Later, I found that youtube-dl download subtitle from different URL. http://video.google.com/timedtext?hl=en&lang=%s&v=%s I found only about 1% of clip I had downloaded have this problem, but I would very appreciate if this issue would have been resolved. Thank you :)