[browser extension] Import fails from YouTube

Bugs
1

Hello,

It seems YouTube changed something about their transcripts such that the extension now fails to extract it.

Example video with an issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fl7v1lDoC0 - tried in both Firefox and Chrome, the issue persists in both, and I get the message “Failed to extract transcript from YouTube video.”

Happy to provide any further useful info or test a fix.

Thanks much!

p.s. I’ve been using the Firefox extension for a few months now, it’s been wonderful! Thank you once again for publishing it.

2

This seems to be somewhat intermittent? I just tried on the original video again and it worked, but it won’t work on a different video.

3

Have the same issue, also on chrome and firefox.

4

Something has definitely changed. I copy the transcript direct from YouTube (rather than use Readlang’s import feature), and in the last few days this has become much more difficult. The transcript is there, but in very large letters, which block out the “toggle time labels” three dots, and also block out the language button. I’m getting this on PC and Android tablet, on Chrome and on Edge. For the time being, I’m using Turboscribe where necessary, or Readlang’s AI refine feature to get rid of the timestamps.