00YouTube · Captions
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It tells you the truth about the captions
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It says why, when it fails
No captions? Age-restricted? Removed? The market standard is to return an empty result and let you guess. We name the reason, every time.
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Any language the video carries captions in. You pick your preferred language; if it isn't available, we fall back to what the video has and tell you which one you got.
Do you store the videos or transcripts?
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