yt tool can't find transcripts

[jbartot]

Although I have had this work on 1 video, it seems yt can't retrieve the transcript (present in the YT UX) on most videos.

yt --transcript "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxzH_LJqeR8" | fabric --pattern extract_wisdom

"transcript": "Transcript not available. (transcript not found)"

[jderrett]

I curl'd YouTube video URLs from local MBP (works fine) and then from a couple of EC2 instances, and captionTracks does not appear in the HTML result from EC2 (even with User-Agent set). May be caused by IPs being blocked by a recent change?

This breaks fabric for me from EC2 as well :(

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78860581/error-fetching-youtube-transcript-using-youtubetranscriptapi-on-server-but-works

https://github.com/danielmiessler/yt/blob/main/yt.go#L40

[DiegoFleitas]

I ended up using yt-dlp to transcript

yt-dlp --quiet --no-warnings --write-auto-sub --sub-lang en --skip-download --sub-format vtt -o "<tempFile>" "<videoUrl>"