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Scrape YouTube Captions into Clear-Text on Debian/Ubuntu

Ever wished you could grab the spoken words from a YouTube video without opening a browser? On any Debian-based distro—Ubuntu, Pop!\_OS, Linux Mint, Elementary, etc.—you can do it with nothing more than `yt-dlp` (the modern fork of `youtube-dl`) and a couple of classic GNU utilities. In a minute or two you’ll have a tidy, searchable `transcript.txt` sitting in your working directory.

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