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Could not retrieve a transcript for the video

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Could not retrieve a transcript for the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98TQv5IAtY8! This is most likely caused by: The video is no longer available

It works on my local computer (Windows 10) but when I try to use it on Ubuntu 20.04(DigitalOcean Droplet) I get this error! I assume the error is caused by sender I.P. address.

I got a similar problem using youtube-dl on my droplet and when I tried using “–force-ipv4” with youtube-dl It worked. Is there a similar solution to this?

Code YouTubeTranscriptApi.get_transcript("98TQv5IAtY8", languages=['en'])

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:34 (16 by maintainers)

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jdepoixcommented, Sep 24, 2020

@iercetin @sdtblck any news on this?

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jdepoixcommented, Mar 23, 2021

In v0.4.0 the Exception TooManyRequests has been added which is raised when running into rate limits. This could be used to further investigate the issue. My guess with the IPv4 vs. IPv6 thing @iercetin mentioned is that the IPv6 has been blocked due to extensive usage, while IPv4 still works as it hasn’t been blocked yet.

As this issue is kinda all over the place now with different things being reported (most of them most likely due to rate limits, which now have a more speaking error message) I will close this for now. If individual issues arise again feel free to open a new issue with a title more specific to that issue.

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