Summarizer fails on all YouTube videos, "Sorry, no transcript could be found for this video."

urrlich

Summarizer fails to find transcripts for all YouTube videos for me, giving the error "Sorry, no transcript could be found for this video."

This happens everywhere: Firefox extension, Summarizer on the website, Summarizer part of the Android app, dedicated Summarizer Android app (though here the error is "An error occurred, please try again later").

For example:

The video does have a transript:

But Summarizer doesn't see it.

Man, this extra text box is annoying. I'm expecting it to find and summarize the transcript, that exists.

Thibaultmol

There has been various reports about the summarizer having issues with YouTube videos lately. It's being looked into

iamjameswalters

I've noticed inconsistent performance lately when summarizing YouTube videos, on both the mobile app and the website.

For example:

This failed with both https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgaLsQTFUEw and the share URL https://youtu.be/xgaLsQTFUEw

I'm assuming this is Youtube antibot stuff.

Also had a hiccup where I asked a question about a YouTube video in Assistant, and it didn't pull it up, sharing here in case it's related

https://kagi.com/assistant/ef13a46e-5a52-4f38-b887-7119294df54b

ExposerBlonde

Same. Google has tweaked their transcript extraction again, I think.

richardche

Same here. I used to be able to use Universal Summarizer to summarize videos with auto-generated subtitles, but not anymore. This has become such a inconvenience for me.