Issues Encountered with YouTube Scraper Action Node in Build Walkthrough

Rex H. · 2025-07-10T20:38:32.119Z

hey friends... was doing a build walkthrough with a big group today and ran into a couple sharp edges with the YouTube scraper action node... see thread for details

Issues Encountered with YouTube Scraper Action Node in Build Walkthrough | Lindy Community

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Rex H.
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the first is that the URL input field on "auto" pulling from a Google Sheet "Row Added" trigger kept adding brackets therefore breaking the passthrough (you should be able to see this here: https://chat.lindy.ai/rex-harriss-workspace-3/lindy/alphalab-yt-scraper-google-sheets-687001815922286a0027d368/tasks?task=687006b91b8048647da3425f)
Rex H.
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the second is that we ran into a bunch of videos that said "Error: [YoutubeTranscript] 🚨 Transcript is disabled on this video (lZw9G1er8eE)" even though we verified they were there... and, sometimes, retrying with the same video made it work
Rex H.
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https://chat.lindy.ai/rex-harriss-workspace-3/lindy/new-lindy-21-686fc9475d5d71438b55c354/tasks?task=686fd50c5922286a0025034c
Alon J.
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Hey Rex! Oh no -- flagging this to our team! I see you were able to get a couple of them working, right?
Rex H.
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thanks for the prompt reply and help, as always, Alon! on the first issue, I resorted to a prompt step with a “grab just the URL from <rowValues> without any extra characters”
Rex H.
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on the second, it was just random
Alon J.
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Ok awesome, that's super helpful 🙌 Thank you. Sent all this detail over to our team to look into!
Rex H.
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Alon J. any updates on this? I'm back with this crew on Thursday and would love to at least explain what's happening... it's a featured scraper in the Actions menu, so I'm guessing we both have a vested interest in making sure there's some level of reliability here... thanks!
Alon J.
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Hey Rex -- Apologies about the delay! Chatted with the team - Unfortunately the youtube action is sort of flaky at the moment. We are working on improving it. In the meantime, I would suggest using the Apify action Run Actor -> Youtube Transcript Scraper. This should be much more consistent
Alon J.
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Let me know if you have any issues with this!
Rex H.
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boom! thank you sire! please let me know when the other is working as it's a bit more "user friendly" to point people to the branded one 🙏
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Rex H.
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the first is that the URL input field on "auto" pulling from a Google Sheet "Row Added" trigger kept adding brackets therefore breaking the passthrough (you should be able to see this here: https://chat.lindy.ai/rex-harriss-workspace-3/lindy/alphalab-yt-scraper-google-sheets-687001815922286a0027d368/tasks?task=687006b91b8048647da3425f)
Rex H.
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the second is that we ran into a bunch of videos that said "Error: [YoutubeTranscript] 🚨 Transcript is disabled on this video (lZw9G1er8eE)" even though we verified they were there... and, sometimes, retrying with the same video made it work
Rex H.
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https://chat.lindy.ai/rex-harriss-workspace-3/lindy/new-lindy-21-686fc9475d5d71438b55c354/tasks?task=686fd50c5922286a0025034c
Alon J.
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Hey Rex! Oh no -- flagging this to our team! I see you were able to get a couple of them working, right?
Rex H.
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thanks for the prompt reply and help, as always, Alon! on the first issue, I resorted to a prompt step with a “grab just the URL from <rowValues> without any extra characters”
Rex H.
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on the second, it was just random
Alon J.
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Ok awesome, that's super helpful 🙌 Thank you. Sent all this detail over to our team to look into!
Rex H.
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Alon J. any updates on this? I'm back with this crew on Thursday and would love to at least explain what's happening... it's a featured scraper in the Actions menu, so I'm guessing we both have a vested interest in making sure there's some level of reliability here... thanks!
Alon J.
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Hey Rex -- Apologies about the delay! Chatted with the team - Unfortunately the youtube action is sort of flaky at the moment. We are working on improving it. In the meantime, I would suggest using the Apify action Run Actor -> Youtube Transcript Scraper. This should be much more consistent
Alon J.
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Let me know if you have any issues with this!
Rex H.
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boom! thank you sire! please let me know when the other is working as it's a bit more "user friendly" to point people to the branded one 🙏
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