Fix "YouTubeTranscriptApi has no attribute get_transcript"

The error

Any call to the old class-level methods fails the same way, whatever the video:

from youtube_transcript_api import YouTubeTranscriptApi

YouTubeTranscriptApi.get_transcript("5f3Pn-N6yLc")
# AttributeError: type object 'YouTubeTranscriptApi' has no attribute 'get_transcript'

YouTubeTranscriptApi.list_transcripts("5f3Pn-N6yLc")
# AttributeError: type object 'YouTubeTranscriptApi' has no attribute 'list_transcripts'

The fix: create an instance and call fetch()

fetch() takes the same video ID and languages list. It returns a FetchedTranscript; to_raw_data() turns it into exactly what get_transcript used to return, so the rest of your code keeps working.

from youtube_transcript_api import YouTubeTranscriptApi

ytt = YouTubeTranscriptApi()

# Before: YouTubeTranscriptApi.get_transcript(video_id, languages=["en"])
transcript = ytt.fetch("5f3Pn-N6yLc", languages=["en"]).to_raw_data()
# [{'text': '...', 'start': 1.36, 'duration': 1.68}, ...]

# Before: YouTubeTranscriptApi.list_transcripts(video_id)
for t in ytt.list("5f3Pn-N6yLc"):
    print(t.language_code, t.is_generated)

Old to new, method by method

• get_transcript(id, languages) → YouTubeTranscriptApi().fetch(id, languages).to_raw_data()
• list_transcripts(id) → YouTubeTranscriptApi().list(id)
• get_transcripts([ids]) → a loop over fetch(); the batch method is gone
• proxies={...} on each call → YouTubeTranscriptApi(proxy_config=GenericProxyConfig(...)) once
• snippet["text"] → snippet.text (or index into to_raw_data())

The next error: 'FetchedTranscriptSnippet' object is not subscriptable

If you switch to fetch() but keep reading each line as a dict, you get TypeError: 'FetchedTranscriptSnippet' object is not subscriptable. Either read attributes (snippet.text, snippet.start, snippet.duration) or call to_raw_data() once, as above.

Or skip the library's upkeep

The library tracks YouTube's private endpoints, so it changes when YouTube does, and on cloud servers it is blocked by IP. A hosted API keeps one stable HTTP contract: the TranscriptYT API returns the same text, start, and duration fields, works from any server, and transcribes videos without captions with AI. The first 100 transcripts are free and failed requests aren't billed.

import os, requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://transcript-yt.com/v1/transcript",
    params={"url": "5f3Pn-N6yLc", "language": "en"},
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['TRANSCRIPTYT_KEY']}"},
    timeout=120,
)
res.raise_for_status()
transcript = res.json()["segments"]  # [{'text', 'start', 'duration'}, ...]