How to extract closed caption transcript from YouTube video?

Question

Is it possible to extract the closed caption transcript from YouTube videos?

We have over 200 webcasts on YouTube and each is at least one hour long. YouTube has clo

Answer 1

I just got this easily done manually by opening the transcript at the beginning of the video and left-clicking and dragging at the time 00:00 marker with the shift key pressed over a few lines at the beginning.

I then advanced the video to near the end. When the video stopped, I clicked the end of the last sentence whilst holding down the shift key once more. With CTRL-C I copied the text to the clipboard and pasted it into an editor.

Done!

Caveat: Be sure to have no RDP-Windows sharing the clipboard or Software such as Teamviewer is running at the same time as this procedure will overflow their buffers where a large amount of text is copied.