If you have a script that pulled YouTube transcripts a year ago, there's a good chance it quietly broke. It still runs, no errors — it just returns empty . Here's what changed, and how to actually get captions again.

Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/jamhimself/why-your-youtube-transcript-scraper-started-returning-empty-strings-and-how-to-fix-it-in-2026-20ed)

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