Subtitles are disabled for this video
Raised by youtube-transcript-api (1.2.4 read) as TranscriptsDisabled, a subclass of CouldNotRetrieveTranscript.
Status: Reproduced on 2026-10-17 (latest attempt 2026-10-19 was blocked)
YouTube is not offering any caption track for this video to this client. If the page in a browser shows no "Show transcript" button either, there is nothing for any tool to fetch.
The video's player data has no caption track list (playerCaptionsTracklistRenderer is missing, or has no captionTracks). (read from the library source)
Video ID: XqZsoesa55w
from youtube_transcript_api import YouTubeTranscriptApi
YouTubeTranscriptApi().fetch("XqZsoesa55w")Note: yt-dlp reports a different error for the same ID (see below), so the two tools disagree about this video. Treat it as a repro of the library's behaviour, not as proof that the video has captions disabled.
- Open the video in a browser and look for "Show transcript". If it is missing, no caption data exists to fetch.
- If you still need text, transcribe the audio with a speech-to-text tool.
- If it is shown in the browser but the library raises this, try again later or from another network and compare with another tool.
| Tool | What it prints | Observed |
|---|---|---|
| yt-dlp | ERROR: [youtube] XqZsoesa55w: This video is not available |
2026-10-17, home network, India |
| Date | Environment | Library | Result | What was observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-19 | GitHub Actions runner (ubuntu-latest, hosted cloud IP) | 1.2.4 | Inconclusive (network blocked) | RequestBlocked raised instead |
| 2026-10-17 | GitHub Actions runner (ubuntu-latest, hosted cloud IP) | 1.2.4 | Inconclusive (network blocked) | RequestBlocked raised instead |
| 2026-10-17 | home network, India (residential) | 1.2.4 | Reproduced | TranscriptsDisabled raised |
| 2026-10-17 | home network, India (residential) | 1.2.4 | Reproduced | TranscriptsDisabled raised for video XqZsoesa55w. yt-dlp printed 'This video is not available' for the same ID. |
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