search

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!
MIT License
2.55k stars 280 forks source link

Subtitles are disabled for this video #214

Closed akul-goyal closed 1 year ago

akul-goyal 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

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

What code / cli command are you executing?

I am running

from youtube_transcript_api import YouTubeTranscriptApi
transcript_list = YouTubeTranscriptApi.list_transcripts('Pm0GunxFVas')

Which Python version are you using?

Python 3.8.10

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

youtube-transcript-api 0.6.1

Expected behavior

I expected to get back machine-generated subtitles as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm0GunxFVas has subtitles associated with it.

Actual behavior

Instead, I received the following error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home//venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/youtube_transcript_api/_api.py", line 71, in list_transcripts
    return TranscriptListFetcher(http_client).fetch(video_id)
  File "/home//venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/youtube_transcript_api/_transcripts.py", line 48, in fetch
    self._extract_captions_json(self._fetch_video_html(video_id), video_id),
  File "/home//venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/youtube_transcript_api/_transcripts.py", line 62, 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=Pm0GunxFVas! 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!
akul-goyal commented 1 year ago

It was because the video was age-restricted. Sorry for opening a new issue.