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Transcript retrieval is broken #4

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KTibow opened this issue Jan 3, 2025 · 2 comments
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Transcript retrieval is broken #4

KTibow opened this issue Jan 3, 2025 · 2 comments

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@KTibow
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KTibow commented Jan 3, 2025

I'm getting an error like

Error: Could not retrieve a transcript for the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=[...] 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!

for every video I try.
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vacmar01 commented Jan 3, 2025

Thank you for bringing this up. I'm currently on vacation, but I will look into it when I'm back home.

UltimateBoi added a commit to UltimateBoi/youtube2anki that referenced this issue Jan 15, 2025
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Fix transcript retrieval error for YouTube videos
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Fixes vacmar01#4

Fix transcript retrieval error for YouTube videos.

* Add a try-except block in `get_transcript` method in `y2a/clients.py` to catch `YouTubeTranscriptApi.CouldNotRetrieveTranscript` exception and log a warning if subtitles are disabled.
* Modify `create_or_get_video` method in `cards/models.py` to handle empty transcripts by setting `transcript` field to "No transcript available" if the transcript is empty.
* Update error handling in `generate` view in `cards/views.py` to display a user-friendly message if transcript retrieval fails by setting `context['error']` to "Transcript not available for this video" if the transcript is "No transcript available".

Possible solution that may have caused crashes due to videos having transcript / closed captions disabled.

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vacmar01 commented Jan 27, 2025 •
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The problem is with the https://github.com/jdepoix/youtube-transcript-api package. It stopped working some weeks ago unfortunately for every video :(

I will keep on looking for an alternative.

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