LuisJavierFI commented 1 year ago

To Reproduce

I wish to retrieve the transcript of a list of over 3k videos but I get the error stated in the section provided. In short, it says this "Subtitles are disabled for this video"

The subtitles are not available and indeed when I go to YouTube they are not there, but if I run the following code it retrieves the subtitles.

With this code I retrieve the subtitles even though they are not available on YouTube.

transcript_list = YouTubeTranscriptApi.get_transcript("UOXsLrjjtpQ",languages=["en"])
valores = [diccionario["text"] +""+ str(round(diccionario["start"]/60,2)) for diccionario in transcript_list]

However, if I pass a list of id_videos to the previous code it generates the error even with the same id_video.

id_video = ['xxxxxxx','xxxxxxx',.......,'UOXsLrjjtpQ',.........'xxxxxxx']
for id in id_video:
    transcript_list = YouTubeTranscriptApi.get_transcript(id,languages=['en'])
    valores = [diccionario['text'] +' '+ str(round(diccionario['start']/60,2)) for diccionario in transcript_list]

What code / cli command are you executing?

I'm running it from Google Colab. I don't know if it affects anything or changes.

  transcript_list = YouTubeTranscriptApi.get_transcript('UOXsLrjjtpQ',languages=['en'])

Which Python version are you using?

Python 3.9.16

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

youtube-transcript-api 0.5.0

Expected behavior

I wish to obtain the transcript of a list of more than two thousand videos but it gives me an error. This is the id that gives me an error -----> "UOXsLrjjtpQ"

Actual behaviour

I don't manage to recover all the subtitles of my id_videos list that I have, around id_video 80 I get an error.

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

Subtitles are disabled for this video

Thank's

LuisJavierFI commented 1 year ago

I have another doubt to handle exceptions with the library.

I am retrieving videos from YouTube video lists, I am only interested in those in which the language is English, I made my attempt at an exception with the following code.

# id_video = 'slPTDLrNo48'  ---> koreano
try:
  transcript_list = YouTubeTranscriptApi.get_transcript('slPTDLrNo48',languages=['en'])
  valores = [diccionario['text'] +' '+ str(round(diccionario['start']/60,2)) for diccionario in transcript_list]
  print(valores)
except Exception as e:
    pass

There are lists created by people who have videos in various languages and this code worked for me.

I have also come across videos that have melody without any lyrics and there the program sometimes fails and others not, I have not been able to solve this

# id_video melody ----> '2mIZAkGg5Js'
try:
    transcript_list = YouTubeTranscriptApi.get_transcript('2mIZAkGg5Js',languages=['en'])
    valores = [diccionario['text'] +' '+ str(round(diccionario['start']/60,2)) for diccionario in transcript_list]
except Exception as e:
   pass

Some suggestion? Thanks!!!