How to download pluralsight video with subtitle from playlist?

[Kriptonium]

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Hi there! Great work and thank you youtube-dl developer. May I ask, Can I download video from pluralsight with subtitle ?

$ youtube-dl --version
2016.05.16

I able to grab video via playlist:
$ youtube-dl --username user@email.com --password password --list-subs "https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/play-by-play-laravel-5-getting-started"

It tried with --embed-subsand --write-sub parameter but no subtitle was found.

[jhuyvu]

I have same problem with download video subtitles from Pluralsight.

[Kriptonium]

@0x25101994 does mean you can download subtitle before then?

[jhuyvu]

I have just try it yesterday, but it's can't download subtitle.

[jmvtrinidad]

Its seems the code for Pluralsight is not getting the substitles.
Please update.

[hlrd93]

I have the same issue!

[jmvtrinidad]

Hope someone here found this helpful.
I use this snippet to extract srt content.

var subtitleAsSRT = o.map(function(sub, i) {
    function time(ms) {
       return new Date(ms).toISOString().slice(11, -1).replace('.',',');
    }
    var nextIndex = i + 1 == o.length ? o.length - 1 : i + 1;
    return (i + 1) + "\r\n" + time(sub.displayTimeOffset* 1000) + " --> " + time(o[nextIndex ].time * 1000) + "\r\n" + sub.text;
}).join("\r\n\r\n");

Where o is the caption key in json file.
subtitleAsSRT contains the srt content.

[lrushl]

@jmvtrinidad, thank you for the nice and useful snippet.

I would like to note that original snipped contains a small typo (there should be 'time(o[nextIndex ].displayTimeOffset * 1000)' instead of 'time(o[nextIndex ].time * 1000)').

Please find updated code here

[jmvtrinidad]

Hi @dstftw, Is this included in current exe for windows? Thanks

[dstftw]

Not included.

[jmvtrinidad]

Thanks, will wait for exe update.

[Kriptonium]

I be waiting for exe update too!

[dstftw]

Here you go then.

[wkk5]

Is there a way to only download the subtitles without doing the videos? If so, would someone mind sharing the method for doing so with the exe? Thanks!

[dstftw]

@wkk5 --skip-download.

[wkk5]

@dstftw Thx!

[hossameldinmi]

how can i do that?

[Rainyroad]

@HossamEldinMahmoud

OK bro.
Go and download youtube-dl.exe
Now use CMD and go to a folder that contains youtube-dl.exe file.
Just Copy one of the below lines in CMD!

• If you want to download video+subtitle, use this code and replace XXXX with your video's URL :

youtube-dl --username Username --password password all-subs "XXXX"

• If you want to download subtitles only, use this code and replace XXXX with your video's URL :

youtube-dl --username Username --password password all-subs "XXXX" --skip-download

Note : In both condition, you must enter your pluralsight's Username & Password instead of Bolded words!

Any question? No problem, You have me! 💃

[PhanDuc]

Hi,
My friend use idm to download pluralsight video but pluralsight block his account.
Did i get block if i used youtube-dl to download video from pluralsight ?
Many thanks !

[Rainyroad]

@PhanDuc
Yeah, you can download pluralsight courses using yt-dl easily without any problem. Personally I have downloaded over 15 javascript courses since 2 month ago and I sure that you have no problem.

[hailuavitinh]

Hi @Rainyroad ,

I use your guide, but I don't see any file . please see my image

[hossameldinmi]

@Rainyroad I have tried this, but it gave me

ERROR: 'all-subs' is not a valid URL. Set --default-search "ytsearch" (or run youtube-dl "ytsearch:all-subs" ) to search YouTube

[yan12125]

There's an option --all-subs. I guess it's a typo.

[rubgithub]

How to change subtitle language?

[yan12125]

@rubgithub --list-subs and --sub-lang are useful here

[rubgithub]

@yan12125 Fist option --list-subs

Language formats
en srt, json
[download]

What does this mean? Only english avaiable?

After download no files in default folder of yddl
[download] Finished downloading playlist: xxx

[yan12125]

Only english avaiable?

Yep. If there are more languages but youtube-dl miss them, feel free to open a new issue for that. Don't forget to attach an example URL.

[hossameldinmi]

@Rainyroad I did these steps and finally should download it, but I couldn't find the files in the directory

[bitsnaps]

@HossamEldinMahmoud to actually download subs files use --all-subs because --list-subs will only list (show) them in console. --all-subs works with me (v2017.09.15).

[hossameldinmi]

@bitsnaps @Rainyroad Thanks, it works,
but another message that appeared after many downloads

WARNING: Unable to download captions JSON: HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests

How to resume the downloads?

[bitsnaps]

@hossameldinmi looks like you're using multiple account from the same machine, or you're viewing videos and downloading meanwhile, there are some restrictions from such usage. No idea how to resume downloads, I'm not sure even if downloads are resumable! you may need to include " --sleep-interval 10" to mimic video watching.

[Perinban]

@Rainyroad Can we download all the subs at one time?