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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] Too Many Requests For URL, Request to YouTube failed #223

Closed saousername closed 10 months ago

saousername commented 10 months 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.

Error

Could not retrieve a transcript for the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=429 Client Error: Too Many Requests for url: https://www.google.com/sorry/index?continue=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DhKvzg7VMbv0&q=EgQ2v_0MGKKJt6cGIjAXWwEp36DAO5Bjq5b4pqsJdyQmg-9-4PAfT4BV7ogFjyoJ4IkqjZTX5xHwso4U6XUyAXJaAUM! This is most likely caused by:

Request to YouTube failed: hKvzg7VMbv0

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.

Which Python version are you using?

Python 3.9.1

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

most recent

Expected behavior

I expected to receive a transcript for video ID hKvzg7VMbv0

Actual behaviour

Instead I got the above error message.

Is this something to do with proxy IPs/YouTube rate limits? If so, how do I get around the issue?

strtech111 commented 10 months ago

getting same error

JerryZhou54 commented 10 months ago

Getting same error as well

saousername commented 10 months ago

Looks like it's working now

saousername commented 10 months ago

Maybe YouTube's API was being weird.