You make a great point about the importance of transcripts for accessibility, research, and content discovery. It’s frustrating when third-party transcript services end up behind restrictive platforms like Cloudflare, which can limit access even more than YouTube itself.
I’ve also run into the “Transcript is disabled on this video” issue on several sites, including youtubetranscript.io. Sometimes, it’s because the video owner has disabled captions, or the video is too new for transcripts to be generated.
There are a few alternative tools worth checking out, like Transcriptly, Otter.ai, and Rev.com, which sometimes do a better job at extracting or generating transcripts, even for videos where the default YouTube transcript is missing or restricted.
I really like your idea of Lemmy (or Invidious) automatically fetching and displaying transcripts for shared YouTube links, maybe hidden behind a spoiler tag for those who want it. That would be a huge step forward for accessibility and usability. Hopefully, more platforms will consider integrating this kind of feature in the future!
Is it changed for get the transcript?