Captions Python Packages

youtube-transcript-api

This is a python API which allows you to get the transcript/subtitles for a given YouTube video. It also works for automatically generated subtitles and it does not require an API key nor a headless browser, like other selenium based solutions do!

webvtt-py

Read, write, convert and segment WebVTT caption files in Python.

rev-ai

Rev AI Python SDK

ffsubsync

Automagically synchronize subtitles with video.

subaligner

Automatically synchronize and translate subtitles, or create new ones by transcribing, using pre-trained DNNs, Forced Alignments and Transformers. https://subaligner.readthedocs.io/

midicap

Stand-alone, pure Python MIDI music captioner and analyzer

datasety

CLI tool for dataset preparation: resize, align, caption, shuffle, synthetic, and mask generation.

autosrt

A python script COMMAND LINE utility to AUTO GENERATE SUBTITLE FILE (using free Google Speech Recognition API) and TRANSLATED SUBTITLE FILE (using unofficial online Google Translate API) for any video or audio file

audio-subtitler

Extract vtt and srt subtitle using fast whisper

srt3

srt3 is a simple library for parsing, modifying, and composing SRT files.

localcaption

🎬 Paste a YouTube URL → get a Whisper transcript. Fully local, zero API keys. yt-dlp + ffmpeg + whisper.cpp in one CLI.

vit-captioner

A package for extracting keyframes from videos and generating captions using ViT-GPT2 model

pyautosrt

pyautosrt is a python based desktop app to generate subtitle and translated subtitle file

tube-dl

Youtube video downloader and info extractor for python.

yt-transcript-fetcher

A python package to fetch YouTube video transcripts

embedsrt

embedsrt is a simple command line tool made with python to embed a subtitle file into any video or audio files

translatesrt

a utility for translating a subtitle file to another language

assy

Automatic subtitle synchronization tool.

lcyt

Send live captions to YouTube streams

yt-transcript-extractor

CLI tool to extract YouTube transcripts and export to Markdown, JSON, TXT, and SRT

subsume

Automagically synchronize subtitles with video.

caption-animator

Render SRT/ASS subtitle files into animated, alpha-channel video overlays with plugin-based animation system.

ffsubs

Language-agnostic synchronization of subtitles with video via speech detection, and other subtitle tools.