Cannot detect Youtube video captions

[amyliu2015]

We have just installed the newest version (2.0.5). The Youtube videos having captions still are detected with the result: Synchronized captions should be provided for prerecorded web-based video.

[bagofarms]

This seems to be a recurring issue. Another school reported two videos that were flagged erroneously, and the issue was that the YouTube API was unable to find the videos. I double-checked, and the videos actually exist on the YouTube site, but the API doesn't know anything about them. To be on the safe side, we flag the videos if there's an error retrieving their information from the API.

If you could provide at least one video where this occurs, i can manually run the API call and see if it's having the same issue.

[amyliu2015]

Hi Jacob,

Thanks for your reply. Here is an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW7h1APpRQI&feature=youtu.be

Best, Amy

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Jacob Bates notifications@github.com wrote:

This seems to be a recurring issue. Another school reported two videos that were flagged erroneously, and the issue was that the YouTube API was unable to find the videos. I double-checked, and the videos actually exist on the YouTube site, but the API doesn't know anything about them. To be on the safe side, we flag the videos if there's an error retrieving their information from the API.

If you could provide at least one video where this occurs, i can manually run the API call and see if it's having the same issue.

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[bagofarms]

Amy,

I've discovered that this issue is caused by how the YouTube API handles Unlisted videos. It will pretend that the video does not exist if the video is Unlisted, so the UDOIT code marks it as needing captions just in case. I found a Google developer post from 2010 saying that they hoped to add access to Unlisted videos in the API by July of that year, so I don't expect we'll be able to do anything with Unlisted videos anytime soon. I'm closing this issue and adding one that will add a new Error specifically for videos that are Unlisted or not found.

[amyliu2015]

Thanks for letting me know. Happy holiday!

Amy

On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Jacob Bates notifications@github.com wrote:

Amy,

I've discovered that this issue is caused by how the YouTube API handles Unlisted videos. It will pretend that the video does not exist if the video is Unlisted, so the UDOIT code marks it as needing captions just in case. I found a Google developer post from 2010 saying that they hoped to add access to Unlisted videos in the API by July of that year, so I don't expect we'll be able to do anything with Unlisted videos anytime soon. I'm closing this issue and adding one that will add a new Error specifically for videos that are Unlisted or not found.

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