How can I download YouTube subtitles? (I can't using a simple method with pytube)

Question

import pytube

yt = YouTube('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW2pXu97Yvo')

yt.captions.all()

I'm trying this simple code and keep getting this:

Error message

Can somebody recommend a method of downloading YouTube subtitles?

May be this link will be useful : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44893271/python-downloading-captions-from-youtube — Mehrdad Hosseini, Jan 18 '20 at 04:25
It is not, because even though pytube is installed the class YouTube doesn't seem to exist. :/ — luka1156, Jan 18 '20 at 05:13
It's quite simple, just import YouTube. You only imported pytube. If you want to use YouTube, change it YouTube to pytube.YouTube, or change `import pytube` to `from pytube import YouTube` — CrazyVideoGamer, Mar 23 '21 at 17:24

Pyzard · Answer 1 · 2021-03-24T15:15:20.110

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You never imported YouTube. It's supposed to be:

from pytube3 import YouTube # for Python 3
from pytube import YouTube # for Python 2
yt = YouTube('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW2pXu97Yvo')

yt.captions.all()

edited Mar 24 '21 at 15:15

answered Sep 13 '20 at 17:42

Pyzard

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I recommend you change pytube3 to pytube, because the question uses pytube – CrazyVideoGamer Mar 23 '21 at 17:25
Instead, I'll add an extra line with a comment. – Pyzard Mar 24 '21 at 15:14

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 08 '20 at 21:27

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Use pytube3 instead, it has the same API but is Python3 only: https://github.com/hbmartin/pytube3

answered Feb 08 '20 at 21:27

Martin

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How can I download YouTube subtitles? (I can't using a simple method with pytube)

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