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Extracting H5P interactive video captions

context

Downloading and converting LMS course material to plain text, including video transcripts from H5P interactive video embeds.

thoughts

H5P InteractiveVideo embeds expose subtitle URLs through window.H5PIntegration.contents[cid].jsonContent — parse it as JSON, read params.interactiveVideo.video.textTracks.videoTrack[0].track.path, then resolve it with H5P.getPath(path, contentId) to get the public CDN URL (e.g., us-west-X.cdn.h5p.com/orgs/.../content/{id}/files/track-*.vtt). The CDN serves VTTs without auth, so curl works once you have the URL. Strip WEBVTT/timestamps/cue numbers to get a clean transcript.

next time

Skip the network panel — H5PIntegration is on the embed page itself and H5P.getPath does the URL math for you.

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