Replication of original PR #434: Refactor transcript scraping to use Android innertube API

README.md

@@ -375,17 +375,8 @@ ytt_api_2.fetch(video_id)
 ## Cookie Authentication
 
 Some videos are age restricted, so this module won't be able to access those videos without some sort of
-authentication. To do this, you will need to have access to the desired video in a browser. Then, you will need to
-download that pages cookies into a text file. You can use the Chrome extension
-[Cookie-Editor](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/cookie-editor/hlkenndednhfkekhgcdicdfddnkalmdm?hl=en) and
-select "Netscape" during export, or the Firefox extension [cookies.txt](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookies-txt/).
-
-Once you have that, you can use the following to access age-restricted videos' captions like so.
-
-```python  
-ytt_api = YouTubeTranscriptApi(cookie_path='/path/to/your/cookies.txt')
-ytt_api.fetch(video_id)
-```
+authentication. Unfortunately, some recent changes to the YouTube API have broken the current implementation of cookie 
+based authentication, so this feature is currently not available.
 
 ## Using Formatters
 Formatters are meant to be an additional layer of processing of the transcript you pass it. The goal is to convert a

pyproject.toml

@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ optional = true
 [tool.poetry.group.test.dependencies]
 pytest = "^8.3.3"
 coverage = "^7.6.1"
-httpretty = "^1.1.4"
+httpretty = "<1.1"
 
 [tool.poetry.group.dev]
 optional = true

youtube_transcript_api/__init__.py

@@ -25,4 +25,5 @@
     InvalidVideoId,
     AgeRestricted,
     YouTubeDataUnparsable,
+    PoTokenRequired,
 )

youtube_transcript_api/_api.py

@@ -1,33 +1,16 @@
 import warnings
-from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Optional, Iterable, Union
-
-from http.cookiejar import MozillaCookieJar, LoadError
+from typing import Optional, Iterable
 
 from requests import Session
 
 from .proxies import ProxyConfig, GenericProxyConfig
 
 from ._transcripts import TranscriptListFetcher, FetchedTranscript, TranscriptList
 
-from ._errors import CookiePathInvalid, CookieInvalid
-
-
-def _load_cookie_jar(cookies: Union[Path, str]) -> MozillaCookieJar:
-    try:
-        cookie_jar = MozillaCookieJar()
-        cookie_jar.load(str(cookies))
-        if not cookie_jar:
-            raise CookieInvalid(cookies)
-        return cookie_jar
-    except (FileNotFoundError, LoadError):
-        raise CookiePathInvalid(cookies)
-
 
 class YouTubeTranscriptApi:
     def __init__(
         self,
-        cookie_path: Optional[Union[Path, str]] = None,
         proxy_config: Optional[ProxyConfig] = None,
         http_client: Optional[Session] = None,
     ):
@@ -36,7 +19,6 @@ def __init__(
         object, it is not thread-safe. Make sure to initialize an instance of
         `YouTubeTranscriptApi` per thread, if used in a multi-threading scenario!
 
-        :param cookie_path: Path to a text file containing YouTube authorization cookies
         :param proxy_config: an optional ProxyConfig object, defining proxies used for
             all network requests. This can be used to work around your IP being blocked
             by YouTube, as described in the "Working around IP bans" section of the
@@ -48,8 +30,10 @@ def __init__(
         """
         http_client = Session() if http_client is None else http_client
         http_client.headers.update({"Accept-Language": "en-US"})
-        if cookie_path is not None:
-            http_client.cookies = _load_cookie_jar(cookie_path)
+        # Cookie auth has been temporarily disabled, as it is not working properly with
+        # YouTube's most recent changes.
+        # if cookie_path is not None:
+        #     http_client.cookies = _load_cookie_jar(cookie_path)
         if proxy_config is not None:
             http_client.proxies = proxy_config.to_requests_dict()
             if proxy_config.prevent_keeping_connections_alive:
@@ -135,7 +119,7 @@ def list(
         return self._fetcher.fetch(video_id)
 
     @classmethod
-    def list_transcripts(cls, video_id, proxies=None, cookies=None):
+    def list_transcripts(cls, video_id, proxies=None):
         """
         DEPRECATED: use the `list` method instead!
 
@@ -180,8 +164,6 @@ def list_transcripts(cls, video_id, proxies=None, cookies=None):
         :type video_id: str
         :param proxies: a dictionary mapping of http and https proxies to be used for the network requests
         :type proxies: {'http': str, 'https': str} - http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/advanced/#proxies
-        :param cookies: a string of the path to a text file containing youtube authorization cookies
-        :type cookies: str
         :return: the list of available transcripts
         :rtype TranscriptList:
         """
@@ -202,7 +184,6 @@ def list_transcripts(cls, video_id, proxies=None, cookies=None):
 
         ytt_api = YouTubeTranscriptApi(
             proxy_config=proxy_config,
-            cookie_path=Path(cookies) if cookies else None,
         )
         return ytt_api.list(video_id)
 
@@ -213,7 +194,6 @@ def get_transcripts(
         languages=("en",),
         continue_after_error=False,
         proxies=None,
-        cookies=None,
         preserve_formatting=False,
     ):
         """
@@ -232,8 +212,6 @@ def get_transcripts(
         :type continue_after_error: bool
         :param proxies: a dictionary mapping of http and https proxies to be used for the network requests
         :type proxies: {'http': str, 'https': str} - http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/advanced/#proxies
-        :param cookies: a string of the path to a text file containing youtube authorization cookies
-        :type cookies: str
         :param preserve_formatting: whether to keep select HTML text formatting
         :type preserve_formatting: bool
         :return: a tuple containing a dictionary mapping video ids onto their corresponding transcripts, and a list of
@@ -254,7 +232,7 @@ def get_transcripts(
         for video_id in video_ids:
             try:
                 data[video_id] = cls.get_transcript(
-                    video_id, languages, proxies, cookies, preserve_formatting
+                    video_id, languages, proxies, preserve_formatting
                 )
             except Exception as exception:
                 if not continue_after_error:
@@ -270,7 +248,6 @@ def get_transcript(
         video_id,
         languages=("en",),
         proxies=None,
-        cookies=None,
         preserve_formatting=False,
     ):
         """
@@ -288,8 +265,6 @@ def get_transcript(
         :type languages: list[str]
         :param proxies: a dictionary mapping of http and https proxies to be used for the network requests
         :type proxies: {'http': str, 'https': str} - http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/advanced/#proxies
-        :param cookies: a string of the path to a text file containing youtube authorization cookies
-        :type cookies: str
         :param preserve_formatting: whether to keep select HTML text formatting
         :type preserve_formatting: bool
         :return: a list of dictionaries containing the 'text', 'start' and 'duration' keys
@@ -303,7 +278,7 @@ def get_transcript(
 
         assert isinstance(video_id, str), "`video_id` must be a string"
         return (
-            cls.list_transcripts(video_id, proxies, cookies)
+            cls.list_transcripts(video_id, proxies)
             .find_transcript(languages)
             .fetch(preserve_formatting=preserve_formatting)
             .to_raw_data()

youtube_transcript_api/_cli.py

@@ -33,14 +33,11 @@ def run(self) -> str:
                 proxy_password=parsed_args.webshare_proxy_password,
             )
 
-        cookie_path = parsed_args.cookies
-
         transcripts = []
         exceptions = []
 
         ytt_api = YouTubeTranscriptApi(
             proxy_config=proxy_config,
-            cookie_path=cookie_path,
         )
 
         for video_id in parsed_args.video_ids:
@@ -179,11 +176,13 @@ def _parse_args(self):
             metavar="URL",
             help="Use the specified HTTPS proxy.",
         )
-        parser.add_argument(
-            "--cookies",
-            default=None,
-            help="The cookie file that will be used for authorization with youtube.",
-        )
+        # Cookie auth has been temporarily disabled, as it is not working properly with
+        # YouTube's most recent changes.
+        # parser.add_argument(
+        #     "--cookies",
+        #     default=None,
+        #     help="The cookie file that will be used for authorization with youtube.",
+        # )
 
         return self._sanitize_video_ids(parser.parse_args(self._args))