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It's A Digital Disease!

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Warbly-Luxe on 2025-02-22 16:03:44.

I don't know if this is the correct sub for this, but it somewhat fits and I figure the people on this sub would have a few ideas.

Basically, I am trying to download a batch of class videos from my course website to be able to get access to the subtitles to read as a transcript either printed out or in a separate application where I can take notes. The embed layout is below, but it does not look like it's embedded from a popular site like YouTube or Vimeo.

https://preview.redd.it/pa60tbm5qpke1.jpg?width=2378&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0b6863145fe0d534310d5ef5ba545c5bfe04c87d

The website is built in Instructure Canvas, as far as I can tell. I've reached out to see if my professor has transcripts he can provide anyway, as I am trying to get the transcripts as a disability accommodation, but he's been little help in that regard and I've not heard back from him on this question I am asking this sub now. The subtitles are also auto-generated so a transcript might not even exist, only the slides.

Once I have the subtitles, I can open them in Subtitle Edit to format as needed before outputing it to a text document or the like. But yt-dlp, wget, and curl have not proved fruitful in downloading the videos and subtitles, and there is no option to 'save as'. Additionally, there is like 10 videos per week all 10 to 15 minutes, which is why the transcript button in the embed is less than ideal when it covers part of the video and there is no easy way to copy-past that text.

So, any ideas?

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