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Captions and Subtitles

Timed text that accompanies video, covering file formats such as SRT and WebVTT, human-written caption tracks and machine-generated transcripts.

Current clusters

build1 publisher

YouTube refuses caption scrapers with a well-formed empty 200

Seven variations of the old ytInitialPlayerResponse scrape returned zero bytes from a clean residential IP on 2026-09-21. Getting text back now costs either a maintained library or a headless browser per request.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption20
Hype gap+12
Incentives72
Confidence50