
So, as part of our criteria, we’ve limited our list to dependable tools that have been around for free for at least a year. It’s inconvenient to have to change captioning workflows and redo the process of learning the ins and outs of a different subtitle editor because a new subtitling tool went behind a paywall. This can be a frustrating experience and something to be aware of when choosing a captioning tool. There is a fair number of free captioning and subtitling software and tools available online, but not many that are free and stay free. But the process of creating captions is not always easy.īy choosing the video subtitling software, tools, or editor that best fit your needs and working style, you can save a lot of effort and energy to complete your captions and subtitles in a shorter amount of time. The caption track is returned in its original format unless the request specifies a value for the tfmt parameter and in its original language unless the request specifies a value for the tlang parameter.Published by Shao Chieh Lo, updated by Stella Tran and Shao Chieh Lo on August 13, 2021.Īdding captions and subtitles to video content has a lot of benefits to both audiences and content creators in terms of accessibility and SEO.

When updating a caption track, you can change the track's draft status, upload a new caption file for the track, or both. Note that the API response does not contain the actual captions and that the captions.download method provides the ability to retrieve a caption track. The API supports the following methods for captions resources: list Retrieve a list of caption tracks that are associated with a specified video.

A caption track is associated with exactly one YouTube video. Way that caption IDs are generated and, as part of that change, is assigning new caption IDsĪ caption resource represents a YouTube caption track.

Note: On August 5, 2022, YouTube announced that it has changed the
