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  • The generic URL does not seem to work. I enter http://video.google.com/timedtext?lang=english&v=b11AXknrsEI but it does not work. Also, going to developer tools does not help. There are tons of resources in there and none of them say timedtext. Commented Feb 27, 2014 at 23:21
  • Nevermind, I did find it through the dev tools. Still can't get a generic url to work though. That would be the easiest thing. Commented Feb 27, 2014 at 23:34
  • Try youtube.com/api/timedtext?lang={LANG}&v={VIDEOID} Commented Mar 17, 2014 at 14:39
  • I must be doing something wrong. For this video I enter this but it loads a blank page. I have tried changing english to en and eng but it does the same thing. Commented Mar 17, 2014 at 16:06
  • Looks like the subtitles can be fetched only if captions are manually transcribed i.e. not automatically generated. The video link you shared has only automatic captions. Commented Mar 17, 2014 at 18:38