On: YouTube-dl's repository has been restored

[boogies]

How much of that metadata is not normally downloaded alongside the video?

[bigbubba → boogies]

Plenty of it? I regularly download the metadata and subtitles of entire channels or playlists so that I can search for specific words or phrases in thousands of hours of video. I know of no other way to accomplish this.

[boogies → bigbubba]

Subtitles are a perfect example of data that any normal browser downloads if you click CC, and can even be ^F'd if you click ‘Show Transcript’ on YouTube, but just happen to be orders of magnitude more useful if you control where they download to. I think you’re proving globular-toast’s point.

[bigbubba → boogies]

Subtitles are not video, so no. And I'd like to see you visit a thousand video pages with an RIAA approved browser and ^F on each of them. Nice joke!

[hunter2_ → bigbubba]

Why should subtitles and video be considered so discretely? Are subtitles not copyrighted the same way as the audio and video portions of the work?

[bigbubba → hunter2_]

Beyond subtitles, there is certainly video metadata that youtube might have a claim on but the RIAA does not.

[sjy → hunter2_]

The principles are essentially the same, but they are discrete copyrights which could be owned by different people.

[cosmie → bigbubba]

Thank you so much for writing this comment!

I've been in several situations where this would have been incredibly handy, but never realized it was possible.

[bigbubba → cosmie]

`youtube-dl --write-sub --write-auto-sub --sub-lang en --skip-download [URL]` (Then just use grep)

There's all kinds of cool stuff you can do with youtube-dl. For example 'ytsearch20:kittens' will get a playlist of the first 20 search results for 'kittens'.

[andrei_says_ → bigbubba]

This sounds incredibly powerful. Wondering if c-span is on youtube and properly close captioned.

[bigbubba → andrei_says_]

According to their FAQ, c-span.org's search uses closed captioning to facilitate search (but they don't provide copies of those transcripts.) Perhaps that might suite your needs though.