youtube-transcript-api
A Python library that obtains video caption tracks, including auto-generated captions, by reverse-engineering YouTube's internal interfaces. It can be used without an API key, supports multiple languages, and returns transcribed text with timestamps.
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The README of youtube-transcript-api contains a section titled "Working around IP bans" that explains the IP ban issue.
The current version of youtube-transcript-api throws RequestBlocked or IpBlocked exceptions when the IP is banned; older versions threw TranscriptsDisabled on videos that do have transcripts.
youtube-transcript-api can be configured with a proxy via WebshareProxyConfig, or connected to other proxy providers via GenericProxyConfig(http_url=..., https_url=...).
YouTube blocks most IP addresses belonging to cloud service providers, which is the root cause of youtube-transcript-api failing on servers.
GitHub issue #303 of youtube-transcript-api is titled "works locally, fails on Cloud machine" and has accumulated nearly 200 comments.
youtube-transcript-api is a Python library that obtains video caption tracks by reverse-engineering YouTube's internal interfaces; it requires no API key but depends on the stability of YouTube's page structure.
YouTube does not provide an official subtitle extraction API, and developers typically need to parse embedded data from video pages or use unofficial libraries such as youtube-transcript-api.
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The README of youtube-transcript-api contains a section titled "Working around IP bans" that explains the IP ban issue.
50%UnverifiedThe current version of youtube-transcript-api throws RequestBlocked or IpBlocked exceptions when the IP is banned; older versions threw TranscriptsDisabled on videos that do have transcripts.
50%Unverifiedyoutube-transcript-api can be configured with a proxy via WebshareProxyConfig, or connected to other proxy providers via GenericProxyConfig(http_url=..., https_url=...).
50%UnverifiedYouTube blocks most IP addresses belonging to cloud service providers, which is the root cause of youtube-transcript-api failing on servers.
50%UnverifiedGitHub issue #303 of youtube-transcript-api is titled "works locally, fails on Cloud machine" and has accumulated nearly 200 comments.
50%Unverifiedyoutube-transcript-api is a Python library that obtains video caption tracks by reverse-engineering YouTube's internal interfaces; it requires no API key but depends on the stability of YouTube's page structure.
50%UnverifiedYouTube does not provide an official subtitle extraction API, and developers typically need to parse embedded data from video pages or use unofficial libraries such as youtube-transcript-api.
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