Method fetch

youtube_transcript_api/_transcripts.py:130–147

Loads the actual transcript data. :param preserve_formatting: whether to keep select HTML text formatting

(self, preserve_formatting: bool = False)

        }

    def fetch(self, preserve_formatting: bool = False) -> FetchedTranscript:
        """
        Loads the actual transcript data.
        :param preserve_formatting: whether to keep select HTML text formatting
        """
        if "&exp=xpe" in self._url:
            raise PoTokenRequired(self.video_id)
        response = self._http_client.get(self._url)
        snippets = _TranscriptParser(preserve_formatting=preserve_formatting).parse(
            _raise_http_errors(response, self.video_id).text,
        )
        return FetchedTranscript(
            snippets=snippets,
            video_id=self.video_id,
            language=self.language,
            language_code=self.language_code,
            is_generated=self.is_generated,
        )

    def __str__(self) -> str:
        return '{language_code} ("{language}"){translation_description}'.format(