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The official YouTube video sometimes has community-contributed captions enabled, which can be a good source for fan translations. Unfortunately, YouTube removed the community-contributed captions feature in 2020, so new videos usually wouldn't have translations, because the uploader has to receive a captions file from others, and add them manually. | The official YouTube video sometimes has community-contributed captions enabled, which can be a good source for fan translations. Unfortunately, YouTube removed the community-contributed captions feature in 2020, so new videos usually wouldn't have translations, because the uploader has to receive a captions file from others, and add them manually. | ||
* Use [https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl youtube-dl] to download the captions | * Use [https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl youtube-dl] to download the captions files and convert them to LRC: <code>youtube-dl --skip-download --all-subs --sub-format lrc VIDEO_ID_OR_URL</code> | ||
* Open | * Open them in an advanced text editor such as [https://notepad-plus-plus.org/ Notepad++]. | ||
* Use the regex pattern <code>^\[.*\]</code> in "find and replace" to remove all timestamps, leaving the lyrics themselves. | * Use the regex pattern <code>^\[.*\]</code> in "find and replace" to remove all timestamps, leaving the lyrics themselves. | ||
* Copy them to this wiki. | * Copy them to this wiki. | ||