CLI not working for video ids starting with hyphen

Hi, first thanks so much for this project, it’s awesome!

I wanted to share a concern, I’m trying to retrieve the captions from this video with ID “-tiUDjn7-as” and I can’t cause the hyphen in the start conflicts with the CLI parameters formatting:

youtube_transcript_api -tiUDjn7-as --languages en --exclude-generated --json
youtube_transcript_api: error: too few arguments

I thought that using quotes around the ID would work but still:

youtube_transcript_api "-tiUDjn7-as" --languages en --exclude-generated --json
youtube_transcript_api: error: too few arguments

Is there anything I may be missing? I’m afraid I’m not very experienced on Python and that’s why I’m asking but if some guidance is provided I may be able to do the necessary adjustment myself.

Thanks so much, Mikel

[ojoven]

Hey, thanks so much for the detailed response. I’ll try to fix this on my end and if I find a solution that can be shared I’ll create a PR and add a new message to this thread, thanks.

[jdepoix]

Fixed and released in v0.4.0! Thanks @crhowell!