Fix YouTube transcript caption fetching#1499
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Description
Fix YouTube transcript failures where caption URLs return an empty response.
Root cause:
YouTube’s /api/timedtext caption URLs now require player-generated PO tokens. The old implementation parsed
ytInitialPlayerResponse.captions.captionTracks[].baseUrl from watch HTML and fetched it directly with fmt=srv3. That URL does not include the player-
generated pot parameter, so YouTube returns HTTP 200 with an empty body, causing Caption URL returned empty response.
Changes:
player.getPlayerResponse().captions.captionTracks.
Verification:
Related issue: #1376 #1420
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Documentation (if adding/modifying an adapter)
docs/adapters/(if new adapter)docs/adapters/index.mdtable (if new adapter)docs/.vitepress/config.mts(if new adapter)README.md/README.zh-CN.mdwhen command discoverability changedCliErrorsubclasses instead of rawErrorScreenshots / Output