Amazon web services – Error Fetching YouTube Transcript Using YouTubeTranscriptApi on Server but Works Locally

I’m encountering an issue where the YouTubeTranscriptApi library works perfectly on my local machine but fails when run on the server. The script I’m using is as follows:
from youtube_transcript_api import YouTubeTranscriptApi

from youtube_transcript_api import YouTubeTranscriptApi

video_id = 'DxL2HoqLbyA'
try:
    transcript = YouTubeTranscriptApi.get_transcript(video_id)
    print(transcript)
except Exception as e:
    print(f"Error: {e}")

When executed on the server, it throws an error, but it runs without issues on my local setup. Here is the exact error message I receive on the server:Failed to retrieve transcript:

Could not retrieve a transcript for the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxL2HoqLbyA! This is most likely caused by:

Subtitles are disabled for this video

If you are sure that the described cause is not responsible for this error and that a transcript should be retrievable, please create an issue at https://github.com/jdepoix/youtube-transcript-api/issues. Please add which version of youtube_transcript_api you are using and provide the information needed to replicate the error. Also make sure that there are no open issues which already describe your problem!

I attempted to use a proxy library to bypass the connection issue, but this resulted in a new error. The error message I received is:

HTTPSConnectionPool(host=’www.youtube.com’, port=443):

Max retries exceeded with url: /watch?v=DxL2HoqLbyA

(Caused by ProxyError(‘Unable to connect to proxy’,
NewConnectionError(‘<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at
0x101b62510>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 61] Connection refused’)))

This indicates that the proxy connection could not be established. Despite configuring various proxy settings and trying different regions on my AWS EC2 instance, I am unable to connect to the YouTube API through the proxy. I expected that resolving the proxy connection issue would allow me to successfully retrieve the transcript on the server, similar to how it works locally.

Additionally, I attempted to solve the problem using Node.js as an alternative approach, but the issue persists.