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jdepoix / youtube-transcript-api

This is a python API which allows you to get the transcript/subtitles for a given YouTube video. It also works for automatically generated subtitles and it does not require an API key nor a headless browser, like other selenium based solutions do!
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Error downloading caption for video #170

Closed hatemrizk closed 1 year ago

hatemrizk commented 1 year ago

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior: normal api call to download captions for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo9hXBdTfzQ

Which Python version are you using?

3.7.15

Which version of youtube-transcript-api are you using?

0.5.0

What code / cli command are you executing?

video_link = 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo9hXBdTfzQ'

Extract video id

video_id = video_link.split('watch?v=')[1]

Download caption information

subtitle = YouTubeTranscriptApi.get_transcript(video_id=video_id, languages=['en'])

Expected behavior

Describe what you expected to happen. Instead of recieving caption information I get an error. I am able to display captions in the Youtube app so I don't think they are disabled.

Actual behaviour

Describe what is happening instead of the Expected behavior. Add error messages if there are any.

TranscriptsDisabled Traceback (most recent call last) in 8 9 #Download caption information ---> 10 subtitle = YouTubeTranscriptApi.get_transcript(video_id=video_id, languages=['en']) 11 12 print(subtitle)

3 frames /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/youtube_transcript_api/_transcripts.py in _extract_captions_json(self, html, video_id) 57 raise VideoUnavailable(video_id) 58 ---> 59 raise TranscriptsDisabled(video_id) 60 61 captions_json = json.loads(

TranscriptsDisabled: Could not retrieve a transcript for the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo9hXBdTfzQ! This is most likely caused by:

Subtitles are disabled for this video

jdepoix commented 1 year ago

Hi @hatemrizk, are you sure you are able to see the subtitles when opening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo9hXBdTfzQ ? For me the YouTube player says that transcripts are disabled, which is in line with the error message.

hatemrizk commented 1 year ago

You are correct. It was enabled when I tried it and displayed captions but when I try it now I see it is disabled. Looks like it is working as it should.