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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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TranscriptsDisabled: Could not retrieve a transcript for the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v=v6sF8Ed3nTE! This is most likely caused by: Subtitles are disabled for this video #207

Closed plaban1981 closed 1 year ago

plaban1981 commented 1 year ago

DO NOT DELETE THIS! Please take the time to fill this out properly. I am not able to help you if I do not know what you are executing and what error messages you are getting. If you are having problems with a specific video make sure to include the video id.

To Reproduce

from youtube_transcript_api import YouTubeTranscriptApi

Get the transcript for a YouTube video by video ID

video_id = 'v=v6sF8Ed3nTE' transcript = YouTubeTranscriptApi.get_transcript(video_id)

Print out the transcript

for line in transcript: print(line['text'])

What code / cli command are you executing?

For example: I am running

from youtube_transcript_api import YouTubeTranscriptApi

# Get the transcript for a YouTube video by video ID
video_id = 'v=v6sF8Ed3nTE'
transcript = YouTubeTranscriptApi.get_transcript(video_id)
# Print out the transcript
for line in transcript:
    print(line['text'])

Which Python version are you using?

Python 3.10

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

youtube_transcript_api-0.6.0

Expected behavior

The package should retrive the transcript from the youtube video. For example: I expected to receive the english transcript . I have checked the video in Youtube .The subtitle option is not disabled Youtube URL " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6sF8Ed3nTE

Actual behaviour

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

For example: Instead I received the following error message:

TranscriptsDisabled                       Traceback (most recent call last)
[<ipython-input-3-c6040c6c8a54>](https://localhost:8080/#) in <cell line: 5>()
      3 # Get the transcript for a YouTube video by video ID
      4 video_id = 'v=v6sF8Ed3nTE'
----> 5 transcript = YouTubeTranscriptApi.get_transcript(video_id)
      6 
      7 # Print out the transcript

3 frames
[/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/youtube_transcript_api/_transcripts.py](https://localhost:8080/#) in _extract_captions_json(self, html, video_id)
     60                 raise VideoUnavailable(video_id)
     61 
---> 62             raise TranscriptsDisabled(video_id)
     63 
     64         captions_json = json.loads(

TranscriptsDisabled: 
Could not retrieve a transcript for the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v=v6sF8Ed3nTE! This is most likely caused by:

Subtitles are disabled for this video

If you are sure that the described cause is not responsible for this error and that a transcript should be retrievable, please create an issue at https://github.com/jdepoix/youtube-transcript-api/issues. Please add which version of youtube_transcript_api you are using and provide the information needed to replicate the error. Also make sure that there are no open issues which already describe your problem!
jdepoix commented 1 year ago

Hi @plaban1981, there is no video with the ID v=v6sF8Ed3nTE. You probably want the video with the ID v6sF8Ed3nTE.