Fix captions: use player API instead of broken get_transcript endpoint - #261
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YouTube's get_transcript innertube API now requires PO tokens, returning FAILED_PRECONDITION (400). Switch to fetching captions via the android player API (baseUrl from captionTracks), which still works without PO tokens. - Add get_working_caption_url() to fetch caption URLs via android player API - Default use_innertube_for_captions to False - Auto-fallback from innertube to player API if innertube fails - Update android client to 19.29.37, web client to 2.20260114.08.00 - Fix call_youtube_api to handle optional API key, use prettyPrint=false - Fix innertube_caption.py protobuf encoding and error handling
- Use android client instead of web for get_transcript API calls - Add multi_deep_get fallback paths for both web and android response formats (updateEngagementPanelAction vs elementsCommand, runs vs elementsAttributedString)
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YouTube has blocked the android client (400 Bad Request). yt-dlp has also confirmed this and removed android from their defaults. - Switch player API fallback from android to android_vr (Oculus Quest 3) - Update android_vr client version from 1.60.19 to 1.71.26 - Default use_innertube_for_captions to False (get_transcript is dead on all clients) - Add try/except around player API call in get_working_caption_url
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This looks very similar to #240. I had some comments there that would also apply to this one |
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YouTube's get_transcript innertube API now requires PO tokens, returning FAILED_PRECONDITION (400). Switch to fetching captions via the android player API (baseUrl from captionTracks), which still works without PO tokens.
Fixes #257