How to download YouTube subtitles for free easily?

There is no doubt that YouTube has conquered the world of online video. A bottomless source of content, music, videos, playlists, channels, plus your own potential path to fame. One of the small "grains of salt", so to speak, is the lack of ability to download videos and subtitles. Non-copyrighted videos can be downloaded using programs such as Free Video Downloader. To download YouTube subtitles, we've found method to help you.

Preparation before download subtitles

Before you download YouTube subtitles, you have to check and ensure that the video you want to download has subtitles. To do this, check if the “CC” button is available at the bottom under a video. The absence of it means that it will be impossible to get subtitles.

After you checked the "CC" is active, then we can go to next steps.

Free Download YouTube Video Subtitles

Before we open up SubDown, there left one thing we have to do is copying the video URL.

SubDown is an easy-to-use service which only requires the video URL so that you can download its subtitle files.It has two key advantages: compatibility with most popular browsers, and the ability to select edit subtitles before downloading.

Step 1: Paste the URL into the search box.

Step 2: Click to Download

You can see the button "Download" behind the search box. Click it and then wait for a little second. This step won't take too much time. Downloading YouTube closed captions by using SubDown is quite easy and quick.

Step 3: Choose subtitle format to download

SubDown provides 4 popular subtitle formats for your option. SRT maybe the most popular and compatible subtitle format. If you do not sure which format you will need, you can choose SRT format.

Step 4: Bilingual subtitle format download *Optional

If you want to save multilingual subtitle files, SubDown also provide automatic subtitle translation service. It supports over 30 kinds of languages. If you can not find the lainguage you want, please email us to add it.