During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
youtube_transcript_api._errors.RequestBlocked:
Could not retrieve a transcript for the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViA4-YWx8Y4! 
This is most likely caused by:
YouTube is blocking requests from your IP. This usually is due to one of the following reasons:
- You have done too many requests and your IP has been blocked by YouTube
- You are doing requests from an IP belonging to a cloud provider (like AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure, etc.). Unfortunately, most IPs from cloud providers are blocked by YouTube.

There are two things you can do to work around this:
1. Use proxies to hide your IP address, as explained in the "Working around IP bans" section of the README (https://github.com/jdepoix/youtube-transcript-api?tab=readme-ov-file#working-around-ip-bans-requestblocked-or-ipblocked-exception).
2. (NOT RECOMMENDED) If you authenticate your requests using cookies, you will be able to continue doing requests for a while. However, YouTube will eventually permanently ban the account that you have used to authenticate with! So only do this if you don't mind your account being banned!
If you are sure that the described cause is not responsible for this error and that a transcript should be retrievable, please create an issue at https://github.com/jdepoix/youtube-transcript-api/issues. Please add which version of youtub

from youtube_transcript_api import YouTubeTranscriptApi
from youtube_transcript_api.proxies import WebshareProxyConfig
import os


def get_transcripts(video_id, languages):
    # Get proxy credentials from environment variables
    proxy_username = os.environ.get("PROXY_USERNAME")
    proxy_password = os.environ.get("PROXY_PASSWORD")

    ytt_api = YouTubeTranscriptApi(
        proxy_config=WebshareProxyConfig(
            proxy_username=proxy_username,
            proxy_password=proxy_password,
        )
    )
    transcript_list = ytt_api.fetch(video_id, languages=languages)
    transcript_texts = [snippet["text"] for snippet in transcript_list.to_raw_data()]
    return " ".join(transcript_texts)


# Example usage (only runs when script is executed directly)
if __name__ == "__main__":
    video_id = "YOUR_VIDEO_ID"
    languages = ["en", "de"]
    transcript_text = get_transcripts(video_id, languages)
    print(transcript_text)

youtube_transcript_api._errors.RequestBlocked:

Could not retrieve a transcript for the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViA4-YWx8Y4! This is most likely caused by:

YouTube is blocking your requests, despite you using Webshare proxies. Please make sure that you have purchased "Residential" proxies and NOT "Proxy Server" or "Static Residential", as those won't work as reliably! The free tier also uses "Proxy Server" and will NOT work!

The only reliable option is using "Residential" proxies (not "Static Residential"), as this allows you to rotate through a pool of over 30M IPs, which means you will always find an IP that hasn't been blocked by YouTube yet!

You can support the development of this open source project by making your Webshare purchases through this affiliate link: https://www.webshare.io/?referral_code=1yl49cgzfedr
Thank you for your support! <3