This is a fork of https://github.com/nirbheek/youtube-ass with bug fixed

Download the youtube annotation xml

youtube-dl --write-annotations <VIDEO_URL>

Convert xml to ass subtitle

./youtube-xml2ass.py YOUR_XML_FILE.xml

Bug fixed of the fork

• Python2/3 supported
• UTF-8 characters supported
• Using '16777215' as white color instead of '1'
• Escape '\n' in the xml text area
• Format floating number to two decimal points