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fix: Support youtu.be short URLs and youtube.com/shorts in YouTubeCon…
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions README.md
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Expand Up @@ -69,9 +69,9 @@ conda activate markitdown
To install MarkItDown, use pip: `pip install 'markitdown[all]'`. Alternatively, you can install it from the source:

```bash
git clone git@github.com:microsoft/markitdown.git
git clone https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown.git
cd markitdown
pip install -e 'packages/markitdown[all]'
pip install -e packages/markitdown
```

## Usage
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24 changes: 22 additions & 2 deletions packages/markitdown/src/markitdown/converters/_youtube_converter.py
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Expand Up @@ -53,7 +53,12 @@ def accepts(
url = unquote(url)
url = url.replace(r"\?", "?").replace(r"\=", "=")

if not url.startswith("https://www.youtube.com/watch?"):
# Support full URLs, short URLs (youtu.be), and shorts (/shorts/)
if not (
url.startswith("https://www.youtube.com/watch?")
or url.startswith("https://youtu.be/")
or "/shorts/" in url
):
# Not a YouTube URL
return False

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if IS_YOUTUBE_TRANSCRIPT_CAPABLE:
ytt_api = YouTubeTranscriptApi()
transcript_text = ""
# Extract video ID from URL - support multiple formats
# 1. youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID
# 2. youtu.be/VIDEO_ID
# 3. youtube.com/shorts/VIDEO_ID
parsed_url = urlparse(stream_info.url) # type: ignore
params = parse_qs(parsed_url.query) # type: ignore
video_id = None

# Try standard ?v= query param first
params = parse_qs(parsed_url.query)
if "v" in params and params["v"][0]:
video_id = str(params["v"][0])
# Try youtu.be/VIDEO_ID format
elif parsed_url.path and "/youtu.be/" in stream_info.url: # type: ignore
video_id = parsed_url.path.split("/")[-1]
# Try youtube.com/shorts/VIDEO_ID format
elif parsed_url.path and "/shorts/" in stream_info.url: # type: ignore
video_id = parsed_url.path.split("/")[-1]

if video_id:
transcript_list = ytt_api.list(video_id)
languages = ["en"]
for transcript in transcript_list:
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