How do I include the closed-captions in youtube-dl videos ? .. [solved]

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solved -- see post # 3 below.

Hi all. I mainly use youtube-dl for most videos I want to download. But now I would like to include the closed-captions if possible.

I mainly use this command line below, and in this links case, it has cc text that display on top of the video. Thanks in advanced.

youtube-dl --no-mtime --write-description --write-thumbnail -l -t --no-part -c -f 18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR7ertku1jI

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update... I found the info I was looking for, they were under the headings, "subtitiles". Anyway. I can't seem to retrieve the ones in this link.. using as a test since it is a short download: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR7ertku1jI. When I click the [cc] button at the youtube website, it displays the closed captions, or subtitles, but they don't show up when I use the --all-subs command, for instance.

https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/#subtitle-options

Subtitle Options:

--write-sub            Write subtitle file
--write-auto-sub       Write automatic subtitle file (YouTube only)
--all-subs             Download all the available subtitles of the video
--list-subs            List all available subtitles for the video
--sub-format FORMAT    Subtitle format, accepts formats preference, for example: "srt" or "ass/srt/best"
--sub-lang LANGS       Languages of the subtitles to download (optional) separated by comm

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solved.. I found the answer.. use --write-auto-sub in the command line string. The example below now writes out the .srt file (i updated my file association to recognize it so it can open in notepad) in addition to the other file details I want as indicated in the command line string, below.

youtube-dl --no-mtime --write-description --write-thumbnail -l -t --no-part -c --write-auto-sub -f 18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR7ertku1jI

file: "Kerri Gallagher Makes 2015 USATF 1500 Final-BR7ertku1jI.en"

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