Download YouTube Captions

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Let's say that you've watched Eric Schmidt's keynote from TechCrunch Disrupt and you want to share some interesting ideas from the video. Fortunately, the video has closed captions and there's also an interactive transcript, but there's no way to copy the text.
The good news is that you can download the captions file if you know the URL: http://video.google.com/timedtext?lang=en&v=VIDEO_ID, where you should replace VIDEO_ID with the ID of the YouTube video. Here's the captions file for Eric Schmidt's keynote.
It's an XML file and you can extract plain text by removing all the tags. Right-click on the page, select "view source", copy all the text and paste it on this page.
Now it's easy to copy an excerpt from the keynote:

We have one of the largest databases of information in the world which we've engineered and which is very, very difficult technologically in order to house all that information and ready for more. So, where do we go next with search? Well, you've got personal contacts, personal emails, personal network of people and your relationships with them, and with your permission -- and I need to say that about 500 times -- with your permission, we can actually search and index that information and make all of these answers so much better. The next step after that is obviously autonomous search. This is searches that you're -- that are occurring while you're not even doing searching.

Posted by Alex Chitu at 10/14/2010 02:51:00 PM

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WELCOME TO THE BETA LAUNCH OF TWITPWR

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WHAT IS TRUE TWITTER POWER?

Is it really the number of followers you have, or is the ability to get your followers to Take Action?
When you use the TwitPwr short url service, we track the number of clicks that you drive via the Twitter API, and give your account a Power Rating.
Your Power Rating is not only the unique traffic that you generate, but it's also based on how many Twitter users you refer to our service, and how much traffic they generate through unlimited generations.
More info coming.

HOW IT WORKS

Basic Form
Step 1: Enter your URL
Step 2: Enter your Twitter ID
Step 3: Click Create Twitter Short URL

Advanced Form
Step 1: Enter your URL
Step 2: Enter your Twitter ID
Step 3: Enter Custom Code: Example: makemoney
Step 4: Click Create Twitter Short URL

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Twitter + Blogs = TwitBlogs!

You love Twitter, but you find its short form messages a little restricting? Or perhaps you want to add images and videos to your Tweets? TwitBlogs, which just went live in alpha, could solve all your problems.
What you’ll notice about Twitblogs versus other simple blog platforms like Tumblr and Posterous: it looks exactly like Twitter, simply without the 140 character limitation. There’s also support for image tags, embed tags (for videos) and the option to simply enter the URL of an image or audio file from anywhere on the web and have that included in your post. Obviously your headlines are syndicated to your Twitter feed, and you can Tweet from a tab on the posting screen, too.
TwitBlogs is simple, efficient, and solves a real problem: we like it. The question is: would you choose the familiarity of a Twitter-like interface over Tumblr, which provides more advanced features and theming, among other goodies?
Mashable’s Twitter account is at twitter.com/mashable

 December 13, 2008 - 4:11 pm PDT - by Pete Cashmore