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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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Doesnt download captions for this video #193

Closed LeilaSchooley closed 1 year ago

LeilaSchooley commented 1 year ago

`

from youtube_transcript_api import YouTubeTranscriptApi srt = YouTubeTranscriptApi.get_transcript("UJHObtnp5A") print(srt)

`

I tried to download this video

C:\Users\PycharmProjects\pythonProject\venv\Scripts\python.exe C:\Users\PycharmProjects\pythonProject\youtube.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\PycharmProjects\pythonProject\youtube.py", line 6, in srt = YouTubeTranscriptApi.get_transcript("UJHObtnp5A") ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "C:\Users\PycharmProjects\pythonProject\venv\Lib\site-packages\youtube_transcript_api_api.py", line 132, in get_transcript return cls.list_transcripts(video_id, proxies, cookies).find_transcript(languages).fetch() ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "C:\Users\PycharmProjects\pythonProject\venv\Lib\site-packages\youtube_transcript_api_api.py", line 71, in list_transcripts return TranscriptListFetcher(http_client).fetch(video_id) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "C:\Users\PycharmProjects\pythonProject\venv\Lib\site-packages\youtube_transcript_api_transcripts.py", line 47, in fetch self._extract_captions_json(self._fetch_video_html(video_id), video_id) File "C:\Users\PycharmProjects\pythonProject\venv\Lib\site-packages\youtube_transcript_api_transcripts.py", line 59, in _extract_captions_json raise TranscriptsDisabled(video_id) youtube_transcript_api._errors.TranscriptsDisabled: Could not retrieve a transcript for the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJHObtnp5A! This is most likely caused by:

Subtitles are disabled for this video

jdepoix commented 1 year ago

Hi @LeilaSchooley, if you'll open https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJHObtnp5A in a browser, you'll see that the video is no longer available.