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aludvigsson/youtube-caption-fetcher
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A PHP package to fetch captions from YouTube videos

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Since Aug 17Pushed 1y ago1 watchersCompare

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YouTube Caption Fetcher
=======================

[](#youtube-caption-fetcher)

A PHP package to fetch captions from YouTube videos.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

You can install the package via composer:

```
composer require aludvigsson/youtube-caption-fetcher
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

```
use Aludvigsson\YouTubeCaptionFetcher\YouTubeCaptionFetcher;
use Aludvigsson\YouTubeCaptionFetcher\CaptionFetcherException;
use Aludvigsson\YouTubeCaptionFetcher\InvalidUrlException;

$fetcher = new YouTubeCaptionFetcher();
try {
    $transcript = $fetcher->getTranscript('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID');
    $title = $fetcher->getVideoTitle('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID');
    echo $title;
    print_r($transcript);
} catch (CaptionFetcherException $e) {
    echo "An error occurred: " . $e->getMessage();
}
```

###  Health Score

23

—

LowBetter than 26% of packages

Maintenance27

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity30

Limited adoption so far

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity18

Early-stage or recently created project

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 66.7% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

[![1upmedia](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/120708296?v=4)](https://github.com/1upmedia "1upmedia (2 commits)")[![aludvigsson](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/16348686?v=4)](https://github.com/aludvigsson "aludvigsson (1 commits)")

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