Issue with YouTube Video Captions Not Available Error

Daniel W. · 2025-04-30 16:51:23.761735+00

Hi everyone, is anyone else having an error that says youtube video captions aren't available? i was testing with a youtube URL and it was working before, but now it is saying that same video doesn't have captions

Issue with YouTube Video Captions Not Available Error | Lindy Community

Marvin A.
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thanks for flagging! checking in with our engineers on this!
Marvin A.
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Currently only works with english videos — our engineer will have a fix by tomorrow to support more languages!
Daniel W.
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Working now! thank you for the quick support! (my video was in english)
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Marvin A.
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Interesting! maybe the transcript in another language?! but yeah most languages should be supported now! 🤘🏾
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Daniel W.
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Marvin A., I getting this error again for my lindy's. i have it set to transcribe after a 24 hour wait once a video is published but still saying that the captions won't load. is there a known bug?
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Marvin A.
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same error message? can you share the task url?
Marvin A.
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How to share your Lindy task URL: 1. Click your Lindy agent → click “tasks” 2. Find the task you need help with 3. Click the specific task (you should see the full execution) 4. Copy that page URL from your browser 5. Paste the URL in your support request Note: The URL should include “task” followed by a number Screenshots are also helpful!
Daniel W.
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https://chat.lindy.ai/youtube-to-blog-post-doc-680e1702ed25478ffd1037d0/tasks?task=68279ed1eb733aa47ffd1b95
Daniel W.
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Daniel W.
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have a lot of these
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Daniel W.
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any thoughts here Marvin A.?
Marvin A.
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yeah tested with a bunch of videos and talked to our engineers. unfortunately not much we can do here. The api sometimes does not offer the transcript and sometimes does. For most videos it was working for me..some did not though. Testing with one of your videos actually worked for me too
Daniel W.
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Yeah if i put it in manually it tends to work, but whenever i am using the "new video is posted" trigger, it fails
Marvin A.
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I don’t see any correlation to the trigger. It’s the same when only testing the action unfortunately
Daniel W.
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Any suggested steps to move forward? Marvin A.

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