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Invidious gives no Youtube transcripts --- and Lemmy doesn’t bother with transcripts (slrpnk.net)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by activistPnk@slrpnk.net to c/bugs@sopuli.xyz

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An important part of the Youtube content is the transcript at the bottom of the video description. There are some 3rd-party sites that collect and share the YT transcripts separately but then the naive admins put the service in Cloudflare’s walled garden, which is worse than YT itself and purpose-defeating to a large extent. (exceptionally this service is CF-free, but it says “Transcript is disabled on this video” in my test: https://youtubetranscript.io/)

Invidious should be picking up the slack here.

And Lemmy could do better by automatically fetching the transcript of youtube/invidious links and include it, perhaps spoiler style like this.

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[–] MichaelMuse@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You make a great point about the importance of transcripts for accessibility, research, and content discovery. It’s frustrating when third-party transcript services end up behind restrictive platforms like Cloudflare, which can limit access even more than YouTube itself.

I’ve also run into the “Transcript is disabled on this video” issue on several sites, including youtubetranscript.io. Sometimes, it’s because the video owner has disabled captions, or the video is too new for transcripts to be generated.

There are a few alternative tools worth checking out, like Transcriptly, Otter.ai, and Rev.com, which sometimes do a better job at extracting or generating transcripts, even for videos where the default YouTube transcript is missing or restricted.

I really like your idea of Lemmy (or Invidious) automatically fetching and displaying transcripts for shared YouTube links, maybe hidden behind a spoiler tag for those who want it. That would be a huge step forward for accessibility and usability. Hopefully, more platforms will consider integrating this kind of feature in the future!

[–] activistPnk@slrpnk.net 1 points 21 hours ago

Thanks for the tip about transcriptly.org.. looks useful. Otter did not work for me.. perhaps it is anti-Tor. And rev.com looks like a closed-source mobile app. But in any case, transcriptly might be a useful alternative.