Cant Retrive Transcript although using ROTATING RESIDENTIAL Webshare Proxy Config——2

[nerdnbut]

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To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

What code / cli command are you executing?

For example: I am running

yt = YouTubeTranscriptApi(proxy_config=WebshareProxyConfig(proxy_username=self.proxy_username,proxy_password=self.proxy_password))
available_yt = yt.list(video_id)
transcript = available_yt.find_transcript(self.LANGUAGE_PRIORITY)
fetched = transcript.fetch()

**And I kept the VPN connection on**

Which Python version are you using?

Python 3.12

Which version of youtube-transcript-api are you using?

youtube-transcript-api 1.2.3

Expected behavior

Describe what you expected to happen.

For example: I expected to receive the english transcript

Actual behaviour

Describe what is happening instead of the Expected behavior. Add error messages if there are any.

For example: Instead I received the following error message:

HTTPSConnectionPool(host='www.youtube.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /api/timedtext?v=2tFVLl8w2mM&ei=t8Bbab7UBr6Fpt8PwtDLmA0&caps=asr&opi=112496729&xoaf=5&xowf=1&xospf=1&hl=en&ip=0.0.0.0&ipbits=0&expire=1767645991&sparams=ip,ipbits,expire,v,ei,caps,opi,xoaf&signature=C7A90A3B2B1DA88105A4FDDDE64636F319BA9988.2357F4C569270D1BD939B761749F06734625D08D&key=yt8&kind=asr&lang=en (Caused by ResponseError('too many 429 error responses'))

[jdepoix]

Hi @nerdnbut, thank you for creating a separate issue!

Could it maybe be that you are executing this on a company-computer or do you have another machine that you could try it on? Some companies will block connections to proxy providers on their machines.

I assume that this happens for every video, not just a specific one, correct?

[nerdnbut]

Thanks for your reply , I’m running this on a company computer. However, the company computer is able to connect to proxies — I can successfully test and retrieve the Webshare proxy on its own, but I’m unable to fetch the transcription (caption) data. I’ve also tried running it on other computers and encountered the same issue.

This indeed happens for all videos, not just a specific one.

[jdepoix]

@nerdnbut Could you please run the following in your terminal multiple times and verify that a different IP is printed every time (make sure to replace <PROXY_USERNAME> and <PROXY_PASSWORD> with the values in self.proxy_username and self.proxy_password respectively):

curl --proxy "http://<PROXY_USERNAME>-rotate:<PROXY_PASSWORD>@p.webshare.io:80/" https://ipv4.webshare.io/

Please make sure that this is executed in the same environment as your code is (same machine, same VPN, etc.)