Yes. Still having issues:
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This problem was why I cancelled my subscription and I don’t plan on purchasing another until this gets fixed.
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No it does not work with automatic generated subtitles. The real ones have always worked.
I am on chrome and am using the LingQ importer extension to import.
Version is 2.3.12
If I can provide more info feel free to ask.
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This one doesn’t work for me, although before it would show the error almost immediately, but now the loading screen stays for a while before showing the error.
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@Denys_B I usually don’t care because in these cases I manually copy/paste the video’s transcript on LingQ, but for the sake of testing I have just tried a random video and it doesn’t work.
video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt07uECR9jU
result:
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Likewise. When sharing YouTube link (with auto- generated subtitles) to LingQ app, it freezes for a bit before displaying the error message.
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Thanks for your answers, guys and sorry for the inconvenience.
Be sure the bug will be fixed very soon.
You may be interested to know that, most likely AI will be used by LingQ to transcribe non-original (auto-generated or absent) subtitles in the near future, so the quality of imported YT lessons should increase as well.
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@Denys_B that’s great to know, we have talked in another conversation that AI translates better than the current auto-generated Youtube subtitles. This would be a massive speed-up in both convenience and quality improvement.
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Still having issues, it is really a big problem since the most interesting videos only have automatic subtitles…
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Zoran can we please put priority on this? Most youtube videos have auto-generated subtitles only. Can we get an update at least on why it’s taking so long? Maybe someone in the community can share information if you share the problems the team is facing.
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In the meantime, you can copy/paste the transcript and work the text of the video on LingQ, or convert the video in audio with several free tools online, and upload it to LingQ to generate the automatic transcript with Whisper.
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From my understanding, LingQ attempted to upgrade the importer to Whisper Transcribe any video that had auto generated subtitles. There has obviously been some critical issue which they are having a hard time working out.
If you need auto generated subtitle you can use these free Rooster Extensions to import your content. (Firefox browser only)
(Import and Transcribe Online Videos/Spotify Import)
(Import Youtube Playlist)
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Thanks for the suggestion with the transcript. The button is hidden under the show more button in the description.
You can then use find and replace in a texteditor with \d*:\d* to remove the timestamps.
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I believe this is a very KEY feature for the users. I also sent an email to them to ask for the reason but no response yet. If this cannot be resolved, I am going to cancel the recurring subscription. I need to remind you guys that it is an automatic renewal and you need to cancel it by yourself.
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It’s been almost a month since this broke. Lingq is almost useless for me unless I can import yt videos.
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This has not been fixed.
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You can click on “view transcript” under the YouTube video, toggle “off” the timestamps, grab the transcript (copy), go to “import” and paste the text in, and then copy the YouTube URL into “Video” and voilá! 
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It doenst work for android users unfortunately, I cant see the video while reading the subtitles 
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