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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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?

For example: I am running

YouTubeTranscriptApi.get_transcript ...

Which Python version are you using?

Python x.y

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

youtube-transcript-api x.y.z

Expected behavior

Describe what you expected to happen.

For example: I expected to receive the english transcript

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:

# ... 2023-06-07 19:15:03 ERROR    discord.client Ignoring exception in on_message
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/runner/Discord-AI-Bot/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/discord/client.py", line 441, in _run_event
    await coro(*args, **kwargs)
  File "main.py", line 332, in on_message
    yt_transcript = await get_transcript_from_message(message.content)
  File "main.py", line 170, in get_transcript_from_message
    transcript_list = YouTubeTranscriptApi.list_transcripts(video_id)
  File "/home/runner/Discord-AI-Bot/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/youtube_transcript_api/_api.py", line 71, in list_transcripts
    return TranscriptListFetcher(http_client).fetch(video_id)
  File "/home/runner/Discord-AI-Bot/venv/lib/python3.10/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/runner/Discord-AI-Bot/venv/lib/python3.10/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=SUiMr3h50_g! 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! ...

As the error message already clearly states, this is because subtitles for this video are disabled.