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youtube-caption-extractor

Extract clean, timestamped YouTube captions, subtitles, transcripts, and video metadata for AI summaries, RAG, search, and slide-ready workflows.

v1.10.2, 16 May 2026MITCommonJSTypes: BundledVideo and audio
$ npm install youtube-caption-extractor

Key numbers

As of 25 Sept 2026
Weekly downloads
17.3k
-30% over 12 months
Gzip bundle size
-
No Bundlephobia data
Dependencies
2
Direct, from package.json
Last release
4 months ago
v1.10.2
GitHub stars
170
17 forks
Open issues / PRs
0 / 0
Contributors
-
Commits, last 52 weeks
24

Downloads

Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
010k20k30k40kSept 2025Mar 2026Sept 2026High 36.7k (27 Jan 2026)Low 15.7k (1 Sept 2026)
Weekly npm downloads, one point per week, weeks starting 23 Sept 2025 to 15 Sept 2026. The y axis starts at zero.

17,284 downloads last week, 77,028 in the last month. The 12-month change of -30% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.

Releases, last 12 months
-
Latest version
1.10.2, 16 May 20264 months ago
First published
-
Last push to GitHub
17 Sept 20267 days before the snapshot
Repository archived
No
Open issues
0
Open pull requests
0
Commits, last 52 weeks
24
Dependents on npm
22

Major versions

-

Recent releases

-

Module format
CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
TypeScript types
Bundled
Node.js engine range
>=18.0.0
Runtimes
-
Unpacked size (npm)
30 kB
Dependencies (2)
hestriptags
npm install youtube-caption-extractor
  • jsDelivrhttps://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/youtube-caption-extractor@1.10.2/
  • unpkghttps://unpkg.com/youtube-caption-extractor@1.10.2/
  • esm.shhttps://esm.sh/youtube-caption-extractor@1.10.2
Sources: npm registry, npm downloads API, GitHub API. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.

Indexability: Indexed.