Since captions are meant to improve accessibility, they feature details that are absent in subtitles. Captions, on the contrary, are broader in scope. Generally, subtitles are used to allow viewers to watch movies in a foreign language. Although similar, captions are an extension of subtitles. From increased engagement to SEO boosts, captions are a potent asset in every marketer’s toolkit.Ĭlosed captions are not the same as subtitles. While they were primarily developed as an accessibility tool, let’s not forget about the benefits that captions offer video marketers. There may not be subtitles available in a given language.Captions are a win-win for all. Download the plugin in the Logseq marketplace by searching for get-youtube-captionsĬheck the console for errors.The plugin will download the captions and save them underneath the block. Then run the open get-youtube-captions command via the slash or block menu. Select a block with a youtube video link or embed in it. Logseq-get-youtube-captions allows users to download captions from YouTube video within the LogSeq editor. The summaries are simpler but the tool is free (unlike openai). See if the logseq-summarizer works for you as well. Also, OpenAI is a bit expensive if you send it a lot of text.

There is a limit to the amount of text you can send, so you may need to break it up into chunks. I highly recommend combining this with my logseq GPT3 OpenAI plugin for advanced text summarization, like getting the top 5 main points of a long video. It will display an error if the desired captions language is not available.

It supports setting the caption language to download. It just inserts a big block of text in one block for now, but I plan to let users customize this more in future updates, like breaking the text up into smaller chunks based on timestamp. Works with embedded links and the different youtube video link formats. It finds the first youtube video in the block and downloads the captions. Just type /get-youtube-captions in a block or select get-youtube-captions from the block menu. A plugin for downloading Youtube captions and subtitles from inside logseq

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