Joshua Lochner
Add youtube transcript api
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import sys
# This can only be tested by using different python versions, therefore it is not covered by coverage.py
if sys.version_info.major == 2: # pragma: no cover
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')
import json
from xml.etree import ElementTree
import re
from requests import HTTPError
from ._html_unescaping import unescape
from ._errors import (
VideoUnavailable,
TooManyRequests,
YouTubeRequestFailed,
NoTranscriptFound,
TranscriptsDisabled,
NotTranslatable,
TranslationLanguageNotAvailable,
NoTranscriptAvailable,
FailedToCreateConsentCookie,
)
from ._settings import WATCH_URL
def _raise_http_errors(response, video_id):
try:
response.raise_for_status()
return response
except HTTPError as error:
raise YouTubeRequestFailed(error, video_id)
class TranscriptListFetcher(object):
def __init__(self, http_client):
self._http_client = http_client
def fetch(self, video_id):
return TranscriptList.build(
self._http_client,
video_id,
self._extract_captions_json(self._fetch_video_html(video_id), video_id)
)
def _extract_captions_json(self, html, video_id):
splitted_html = html.split('"captions":')
if len(splitted_html) <= 1:
if 'class="g-recaptcha"' in html:
raise TooManyRequests(video_id)
if '"playabilityStatus":' not in html:
raise VideoUnavailable(video_id)
raise TranscriptsDisabled(video_id)
captions_json = json.loads(
splitted_html[1].split(',"videoDetails')[0].replace('\n', '')
).get('playerCaptionsTracklistRenderer')
if captions_json is None:
raise TranscriptsDisabled(video_id)
if 'captionTracks' not in captions_json:
raise NoTranscriptAvailable(video_id)
return captions_json
def _create_consent_cookie(self, html, video_id):
match = re.search('name="v" value="(.*?)"', html)
if match is None:
raise FailedToCreateConsentCookie(video_id)
self._http_client.cookies.set('CONSENT', 'YES+' + match.group(1), domain='.youtube.com')
def _fetch_video_html(self, video_id):
html = self._fetch_html(video_id)
if 'action="https://consent.youtube.com/s"' in html:
self._create_consent_cookie(html, video_id)
html = self._fetch_html(video_id)
if 'action="https://consent.youtube.com/s"' in html:
raise FailedToCreateConsentCookie(video_id)
return html
def _fetch_html(self, video_id):
response = self._http_client.get(WATCH_URL.format(video_id=video_id))
return unescape(_raise_http_errors(response, video_id).text)
class TranscriptList(object):
"""
This object represents a list of transcripts. It can be iterated over to list all transcripts which are available
for a given YouTube video. Also it provides functionality to search for a transcript in a given language.
"""
def __init__(self, video_id, manually_created_transcripts, generated_transcripts, translation_languages):
"""
The constructor is only for internal use. Use the static build method instead.
:param video_id: the id of the video this TranscriptList is for
:type video_id: str
:param manually_created_transcripts: dict mapping language codes to the manually created transcripts
:type manually_created_transcripts: dict[str, Transcript]
:param generated_transcripts: dict mapping language codes to the generated transcripts
:type generated_transcripts: dict[str, Transcript]
:param translation_languages: list of languages which can be used for translatable languages
:type translation_languages: list[dict[str, str]]
"""
self.video_id = video_id
self._manually_created_transcripts = manually_created_transcripts
self._generated_transcripts = generated_transcripts
self._translation_languages = translation_languages
@staticmethod
def build(http_client, video_id, captions_json):
"""
Factory method for TranscriptList.
:param http_client: http client which is used to make the transcript retrieving http calls
:type http_client: requests.Session
:param video_id: the id of the video this TranscriptList is for
:type video_id: str
:param captions_json: the JSON parsed from the YouTube pages static HTML
:type captions_json: dict
:return: the created TranscriptList
:rtype TranscriptList:
"""
translation_languages = [
{
'language': translation_language['languageName']['simpleText'],
'language_code': translation_language['languageCode'],
} for translation_language in captions_json['translationLanguages']
]
manually_created_transcripts = {}
generated_transcripts = {}
for caption in captions_json['captionTracks']:
if caption.get('kind', '') == 'asr':
transcript_dict = generated_transcripts
else:
transcript_dict = manually_created_transcripts
transcript_dict[caption['languageCode']] = Transcript(
http_client,
video_id,
caption['baseUrl'],
caption['name']['simpleText'],
caption['languageCode'],
caption.get('kind', '') == 'asr',
translation_languages if caption.get('isTranslatable', False) else []
)
return TranscriptList(
video_id,
manually_created_transcripts,
generated_transcripts,
translation_languages,
)
def __iter__(self):
return iter(list(self._manually_created_transcripts.values()) + list(self._generated_transcripts.values()))
def find_transcript(self, language_codes):
"""
Finds a transcript for a given language code. Manually created transcripts are returned first and only if none
are found, generated transcripts are used. If you only want generated transcripts use
`find_manually_created_transcript` instead.
:param language_codes: A list of language codes in a descending priority. For example, if this is set to
['de', 'en'] it will first try to fetch the german transcript (de) and then fetch the english transcript (en) if
it fails to do so.
:type languages: list[str]
:return: the found Transcript
:rtype Transcript:
:raises: NoTranscriptFound
"""
return self._find_transcript(language_codes, [self._manually_created_transcripts, self._generated_transcripts])
def find_generated_transcript(self, language_codes):
"""
Finds a automatically generated transcript for a given language code.
:param language_codes: A list of language codes in a descending priority. For example, if this is set to
['de', 'en'] it will first try to fetch the german transcript (de) and then fetch the english transcript (en) if
it fails to do so.
:type languages: list[str]
:return: the found Transcript
:rtype Transcript:
:raises: NoTranscriptFound
"""
return self._find_transcript(language_codes, [self._generated_transcripts,])
def find_manually_created_transcript(self, language_codes):
"""
Finds a manually created transcript for a given language code.
:param language_codes: A list of language codes in a descending priority. For example, if this is set to
['de', 'en'] it will first try to fetch the german transcript (de) and then fetch the english transcript (en) if
it fails to do so.
:type languages: list[str]
:return: the found Transcript
:rtype Transcript:
:raises: NoTranscriptFound
"""
return self._find_transcript(language_codes, [self._manually_created_transcripts,])
def _find_transcript(self, language_codes, transcript_dicts):
for language_code in language_codes:
for transcript_dict in transcript_dicts:
if language_code in transcript_dict:
return transcript_dict[language_code]
raise NoTranscriptFound(
self.video_id,
language_codes,
self
)
def __str__(self):
return (
'For this video ({video_id}) transcripts are available in the following languages:\n\n'
'(MANUALLY CREATED)\n'
'{available_manually_created_transcript_languages}\n\n'
'(GENERATED)\n'
'{available_generated_transcripts}\n\n'
'(TRANSLATION LANGUAGES)\n'
'{available_translation_languages}'
).format(
video_id=self.video_id,
available_manually_created_transcript_languages=self._get_language_description(
str(transcript) for transcript in self._manually_created_transcripts.values()
),
available_generated_transcripts=self._get_language_description(
str(transcript) for transcript in self._generated_transcripts.values()
),
available_translation_languages=self._get_language_description(
'{language_code} ("{language}")'.format(
language=translation_language['language'],
language_code=translation_language['language_code'],
) for translation_language in self._translation_languages
)
)
def _get_language_description(self, transcript_strings):
description = '\n'.join(' - {transcript}'.format(transcript=transcript) for transcript in transcript_strings)
return description if description else 'None'
class Transcript(object):
def __init__(self, http_client, video_id, url, language, language_code, is_generated, translation_languages):
"""
You probably don't want to initialize this directly. Usually you'll access Transcript objects using a
TranscriptList.
:param http_client: http client which is used to make the transcript retrieving http calls
:type http_client: requests.Session
:param video_id: the id of the video this TranscriptList is for
:type video_id: str
:param url: the url which needs to be called to fetch the transcript
:param language: the name of the language this transcript uses
:param language_code:
:param is_generated:
:param translation_languages:
"""
self._http_client = http_client
self.video_id = video_id
self._url = url
self.language = language
self.language_code = language_code
self.is_generated = is_generated
self.translation_languages = translation_languages
self._translation_languages_dict = {
translation_language['language_code']: translation_language['language']
for translation_language in translation_languages
}
def fetch(self):
"""
Loads the actual transcript data.
:return: a list of dictionaries containing the 'text', 'start' and 'duration' keys
:rtype [{'text': str, 'start': float, 'end': float}]:
"""
response = self._http_client.get(self._url)
return _TranscriptParser().parse(
_raise_http_errors(response, self.video_id).text,
)
def __str__(self):
return '{language_code} ("{language}"){translation_description}'.format(
language=self.language,
language_code=self.language_code,
translation_description='[TRANSLATABLE]' if self.is_translatable else ''
)
@property
def is_translatable(self):
return len(self.translation_languages) > 0
def translate(self, language_code):
if not self.is_translatable:
raise NotTranslatable(self.video_id)
if language_code not in self._translation_languages_dict:
raise TranslationLanguageNotAvailable(self.video_id)
return Transcript(
self._http_client,
self.video_id,
'{url}&tlang={language_code}'.format(url=self._url, language_code=language_code),
self._translation_languages_dict[language_code],
language_code,
True,
[],
)
class _TranscriptParser(object):
HTML_TAG_REGEX = re.compile(r'<[^>]*>', re.IGNORECASE)
def parse(self, plain_data):
return [
{
'text': re.sub(self.HTML_TAG_REGEX, '', unescape(xml_element.text)),
'start': float(xml_element.attrib['start']),
'duration': float(xml_element.attrib.get('dur', '0.0')),
}
for xml_element in ElementTree.fromstring(plain_data)
if xml_element.text is not None
]