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No transcript scraped for some videos with transcript.
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There are some videos where transcript menu is accessed not through a "3 dot" link on the right side below the video player window, but by clicking on "more" link (see attached screenshot).
Here is an example:
I wonder if you can add scraping transcripts from those videos? We are using this actor in a production application.
Ondrej Klinovský (ondrejklinovsky)
Hi, sorry for late reply. Transcripts can be added in short time, we just need to discuss it with the team.
I noticed that content of subtitles is very similar to content of transcripts, the only difference seems to be that the subtitles are split into more time slots. Would subtitles work for you or do you need specifically transcripts?
Subtitles:
100:00:2,360 --> 00:00:8,840 [Music] 200:00:6,879 --> 00:00:11,440 hello everyone good morning good 300:00:8,840 --> 00:00:14,280 afternoon and good evening everywhere um 400:00:11,440 --> 00:00:18,160 thank you so much for joining us today
Transcript:
10:02 [Music] hello everyone good morning good 20:08 afternoon and good evening everywhere um thank you so much for joining us today
mwatch
Subtitles would work for us, thanks
SashaEpstein
Thanks, the latest actor is able to get transcripts for many videos with transcript accessible from the "more" link. However, there are still quite a few videos with transcript accessible from the "more" link, that the actor is not able to get subtitles. Here are a few examples: 0JqsVhglXKA, 2-JTtnqABqc, 3ArykuHsPrI, 4MCYxNAYM5A, 4mFpI3vcz54
SashaEpstein
Hi Ondrej Klinovský, any update on my question? I am from the MedWatch development team, we are using your actor in our production application.
Ondrej Klinovský (ondrejklinovsky)
Hi, I tried to scrape all the videos you provided and it looks like the issue in not in the actor but in our proxies - when the actor uses certain proxies, Youtube doesn't send any data containing subtitles information. I'll discuss this with our team and we'll try to fix it asap.
SashaEpstein
Thanks.
Hi,
thanks for your patience, we're still trying to figure out the best solution. We'll have an update soon!
Sviatozar Petrenko (svpetrenko)
Hi! Thanks for waiting. I've checked and saw that the videos that didn't get subtitles downloaded have non-english subtitles, while the default sub language is English. I've modified the input schema so that the default value for sub language field is now "Any" (make sure to check your input for this). Here is a test run with downloaded subs: https://console.apify.com/view/runs/ghTDkPzAjdSfvqoqs. Let me know if you have any more cases where you don't get subtitles downloaded by reopening the issue.
SashaEpstein
Thanks, Sviatozar,
With the “any” value in the language field in the input request I can successfully get subtitles in the actor output.
We appreciate your help. If I find any more cases where subtitles (transcript) is not available, I will let you know.
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