teddump.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

#
# Dump subtitle in text for TED
#

require 'json'
require 'open-uri'

base_url = 'http://www.ted.com/talks/subtitles'
id = 1183
url = "#{base_url}/id/#{id.to_s}/lang/eng"

data = JSON.parse(open(url).read)
if data && data.key?('captions')
  data['captions'].each do |sentence|
    puts sentence['content']
    puts 
  end
end