[GH-ISSUE #887] [BUG]: Youtube transcript fetcher broken to provider #530

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opened 2026-02-22 18:19:59 -05:00 by yindo · 0 comments
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Originally created by @timothycarambat on GitHub (Mar 11, 2024).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm/issues/887

How are you running AnythingLLM?

Not listed

What happened?

All environments impacted. We use the LangChainJS loader for Youtube for simplicity - and we have yet again been bit by abstraction control.

The underlying youtubei.js library has suffered link-rot and the additional_metadata now fails to return a response from Youtube. Whether this is from a bug on YT side or the library (seems lib) we should allow failure of additional metadata as the transcript is the only relevant part.

eg:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Rs8-M-xBFI

Failed to get YouTube video transcription: Request to youtube.com/youtubei/vtrue/player?key=... failed with status 400

Request to youtube.com/youtubei/**vtrue**/player?key=.... => probably is supposed to be v1

Are there known steps to reproduce?

attempt YT transcript

Originally created by @timothycarambat on GitHub (Mar 11, 2024). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm/issues/887 ### How are you running AnythingLLM? Not listed ### What happened? All environments impacted. We use the LangChainJS loader for Youtube for simplicity - and we have yet again been bit by abstraction control. The underlying `youtubei.js` library has suffered link-rot and the `additional_metadata` now fails to return a response from Youtube. Whether this is from a bug on YT side or the library (seems lib) we should allow failure of additional metadata as the transcript is the only relevant part. eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Rs8-M-xBFI Failed to get YouTube video transcription: Request to `youtube.com/youtubei/vtrue/player?key=...` failed with status 400 Request to `youtube.com/youtubei/**vtrue**/player?key=....` => probably is supposed to be `v1` ### Are there known steps to reproduce? attempt YT transcript
yindo added the bug label 2026-02-22 18:19:59 -05:00
yindo closed this issue 2026-02-22 18:19:59 -05:00
yindo changed title from [BUG]: Youtube transcript fetcher broken to provider to [GH-ISSUE #887] [BUG]: Youtube transcript fetcher broken to provider 2026-06-05 14:35:49 -04:00
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Reference: Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm#530