使用YouTube API的YouTube视频的字幕

Question

Hi after so much research i found this link which gives an xml version of the captions with timelines but when i tried to get the same thing using file_get_contents function in php it just gives only text files.

http://www.youtube.com/api/timedtext?v=7GIDDaF26zE&lang=en

Can any one help me what i am doing wrong?

Answer 1

file_get_contents reads the entire file into a string. If you wanted to get the video's captions directly, you could use captions.download, but you either have to be the owner of the video or the owner has to enable third-party contributions for the captions.