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As for something that I would rather have on a website instead of locally, extracting autogenerated/provided subtitles from YouTube videos, so you don't have to
by nonbirithm 5y ago
As for something that I would rather have on a website instead of locally, extracting autogenerated/provided subtitles from YouTube videos, so you don't have to scrub through the entire video just to get to the information locked within it.
Since I'm usually using a web browser, it's more convenient for me to open a new tab and paste in the video URL than open a terminal and remember what the youtube-dl command has to be. Also, smartphones cannot use youtube-dl in convenient ways, at least the last time I tried, so I'd have to open a new SSH session on my phone and painstakingly type everything, and so on.
There used to be a site for exactly this purpose called hierogly.ph but it was shut down, and the author didn't open-source it.