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by undershirt 2028 days ago
youtube-dl --write-sub --skip-download
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Doesn't work unless there are subtitles (WARNING: video doesn't have subtitles), which seems to be different from captions.
I think subtitles and captions are the same foe YouTube-DL. However, some videos only have auto-generated captions, and YouTube-DL doesn't download these... by default. There is an option to force the download of both generated and even translated captions.
--write-auto-sub (thanks)