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| Download youtube videos with the annotations |
Overview
This is a wrapper for youtube-dl, given a video's URL it will automatically:- Download the video
- Download the annotations
- Convert the annotations into subtitle format (Credit to: S.F. Yang)
- Fix up the naming so that the subtitles are associated with the video
Usage
- Download the script: https://raw.github.com/plurSKI/youtube-download-annotations/master/youtube-dl-annotations.sh
- Make sure both youtube-dl and xmlstarlet are installed on your system
- ./youtube-dl-annotations.sh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOME_VIDEO
Screenshots
Comparison from original video on youtube
and running in MPC after using youtube-dl-annotations:
5 comments:
I'm glad someone worked this out. I've always been distrustful of annotations since they're a sort of vendor lock-in. Users who rely on annotations for their videos would find it very difficult to move all of their content to another video hosting service. Video can be saved and uploaded elsewhere, but as far as I know YouTube annotations don't follow any sort of documented standard.
a guide for noobs please? :)
i have the video and the annotations downloaded, python instaled, youtube-dl downloaded,MPlayer r37183 for 32-bit Windows downloaded, now what? :)
Hi Tim, sorry it's complicated, seems this gets a lot of traffic so I should probably make it easier. For Windows if you install cygwin(https://www.cygwin.com/) and make sure to also install xmlstarlet (There is a screen during cygwin install to select components) things should work.
It's pretty rare I check this blog lately, so if you want you can e-mail me on gmail, my username is: gavin.black
If there is enough interest I will look into making a mingw executable (i.e. native windows one) that's easy for people to use.
Please do so, Gavin, there is definitely plenty of interest. Perhaps if you do, it's gonna get picked up and implemented natively in youtube-dl.
Yeah overall I think the best bet would be a pull request to youtube-dl. The problem is finding time to get it implemented well enough without relying on external components.
I've also made a useful, very simple, heuristic tool that will determine if the subtitles are 'real' (i.e. not just "Please subscribe"). And on top of that a quick way to check if the subtitles are likely in the video stream itself (hard-subbed), in the captions, or in the official subtitles files and just "do-the-right-thing" so you don't have to think per video. All useful things that would be cool to have bundled into the official youtube-dl.
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