I posted this initially under TarTube as linked and quoted below:

Subtitles > Options: Download Automatic Subtitles file (YouTube only) vs Download Subtitles files for these languages: English?

I always want subtitles download.. for English - whether they are added by Creator / YouTuber or auto generated by YouTube engine.

How/ what ways can this be done?

Because it seems a bunch of times I am not getting any subtitles/ cc with the video?

Here's the dev's response.

I experimented with this, but I didn't find the right combination of download options that guarantees "either automatically-generated English subtiles or creator-added subtitles". So you need to ask someone else, perhaps on Reddit or the yt-dlp developers themselves.

For comparison, I thought these download options would do that, but they don't:

--write-sub --sub-lang en --write-auto-sub

When you have your answer, you can add them to Edit > General download options... > Name, like this.

I went to yt-dlp GitHub section and it said you'll be blocked if you make a mistake in template to submit.

So maybe someone has a suggestion on this already being possible? Please share specifics.

OR

Help to frame correctly for the yt-dlp devs?