Unable to import videos that have auto-generated subtitles from YouTube

This is an old issue, but seems to still be a problem.

I can easily do some clicks on the youtube page and manually get a file of the of the auto-generated subtitles, with timestamps. Not sure if what I have is in .srt format, but I could easily fix that.

Is there no way to import such a youtube video and manually add a subtitle file to the imported lesson? (I can manually create a lesson and add a youtube url as a resource, but this seems to lack the functionality of lessons created by actually importing the youtube video.)

Also, I see there’s a workaround that allows for using youtube audio as a lesson, but this seems to be without the video. Is that right? (How to import Youtube videos without captions ). This seems less than ideal, and it seems like quite an easy workaround to import the video and audio without captions and allow the user to load a self-created .srt file.

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