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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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No Transcript Found From Video #278

Closed cyber-yosh closed 2 months ago

cyber-yosh commented 2 months ago

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To Reproduce

Request transcript for "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBTiTcHm_ac&ab_channel=Vox" (video_id = RBTiTcHm_ac&ab)

What code / cli command are you executing?

transcripts = YouTubeTranscriptApi.get_transcript(video_id)

Which Python version are you using?

Python 3.12

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

youtube-transcript-api 0.6.2

Expected behavior

I expected to receive a transcript as the video on Youtube does have a transcript.

Actual behaviour

It throws an error saying that it couldn't retrieve a transcript and that subtitles might be disabled.

Instead I received the following error message:

raise TranscriptsDisabled(video_id) youtube_transcript_api._errors.TranscriptsDisabled: Could not retrieve a transcript for the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBTiTcHm_ac&ab! This is most likely caused by:

Subtitles are disabled for this video

jdepoix commented 2 months ago

Hi @cyber-yosh, the issue is that the video ID is RBTiTcHm_ac (without the &ab). If you use that ID, it should work.