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Last active February 18, 2025 09:14
How to download subtitles/text tracks of a On Demand Vimeo video

Download subtitles/text tracks of an On-Demand Vimeo video

It works with on-demand videos that have the subtitles/captions included (CC symbol). You need to be registered in Vimeo in order to retrieve subtitles.

Steps

  1. Open Chrome Developer Tools
  2. Start playing the Vimeo video
  3. Look for any request named segment-XX.m4s (where XX is a number)
  4. Select the request and inspect the request payload, which is something in the form:

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.subtext {
  display: inline-block;
 background: linear-gradient(to left, transparent 50%, #f60 50%) right;