SSL Errors when using transcript API

[vahndi]

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To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

What code / cli command are you executing?

I am running

from youtube_transcript_api import YouTubeTranscriptApi
transcript_list = YouTubeTranscriptApi.list_transcripts('pxiP-HJLCx0')

Which Python version are you using?

Python 3.9

Which version of youtube-transcript-api are you using?

youtube-transcript-api 0.6.1

Expected behavior

Get list of transcripts for video

Actual behaviour

Instead I received the following error message:

SSLError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='www.youtube.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /watch?v=pxiP-HJLCx0 (Caused by SSLError(SSLZeroReturnError(6, 'TLS/SSL connection has been closed (EOF) (_ssl.c:1129)')))

[benrapport]

I am seeing this as well!

[sumersao]

Also having this issue!

[lober-io]

With Python 3.10.11 and youtube-transcript-api 0.6.1 its working for me

[vahndi]

I realized this is an OpenSSL issue in Windows. This was causing requests (and pip) to fail.