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afourney merged 3 commits into from
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FIX YouTube transcript errors #1241

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FIX YouTube transcript errors
jca351 May 8, 2025
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Merge branch 'main' into YT_Transcript
afourney May 21, 2025
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Fixed formatting.
afourney May 21, 2025
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20 changes: 18 additions & 2 deletions packages/markitdown/src/markitdown/converters/_youtube_converter.py
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Expand Up @@ -151,9 +151,14 @@ def convert(
params = parse_qs(parsed_url.query) # type: ignore
if "v" in params and params["v"][0]:
video_id = str(params["v"][0])
transcript_list = ytt_api.list(video_id)
languages = ["en"]
for transcript in transcript_list:
languages.append(transcript.language_code)
break
try:
youtube_transcript_languages = kwargs.get(
"youtube_transcript_languages", ("en",)
"youtube_transcript_languages", languages
)
# Retry the transcript fetching operation
transcript = self._retry_operation(
Expand All @@ -163,12 +168,23 @@ def convert(
retries=3, # Retry 3 times
delay=2, # 2 seconds delay between retries
)

if transcript:
transcript_text = " ".join(
[part.text for part in transcript]
) # type: ignore
except Exception as e:
print(f"Error fetching transcript: {e}")
# No transcript available
if len(languages) == 1:
print(f"Error fetching transcript: {e}")
else:
# Translate transcript into first kwarg
transcript = (
transcript_list.find_transcript(languages)
.translate(youtube_transcript_languages[0])
.fetch()
)
transcript_text = " ".join([part.text for part in transcript])
if transcript_text:
webpage_text += f"\n### Transcript\n{transcript_text}\n"

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