This is a simple tool for you to use in order to take any Youtube video and grab the captions from the video. With those captions you can then translate them to any language you would like and see the translated captions directly on the site on the video player. Alternatively you can also download the youtube video with any captions you have generated added as optional captions in the downloaded video.

This tool makes use of a Google Cloud NoSQL Database in order to store the information returned from the server about the requested video so that we can display this information properly to the user. At upload request time this information as well as a download URL for the video will be saved to a NoSQL document that we will use to display the information and then perform the download. The actual Mp3 file will be automatically uploaded to Firebase Cloud Storage at the time of upload request and then the request to download will use the provided cloud url.

Follow these steps to generate captions for a Youtube video

1. Go to youtube and find the video you would like to download.
2. Either right click the video and copy the URL or open the video and copy the URL that is in your search bar.
3. Paste the copied URL into the input field on this page and then click the upload button.
4. Once the video finishes uploading select the language you would like to generate captions for and then press the generate button.