diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/peertube.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/peertube.py
index e24b5c7fd..44dc2e489 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/peertube.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/peertube.py
@@ -487,7 +487,7 @@ class PeerTubeIE(InfoExtractor):
 
     def _get_subtitles(self, host, video_id):
         video_captions = self._download_json(
-            'https://%s/api/v1/videos/%s/captions' % (host, video_id), video_id)
+            'https://%s/api/v1/videos/%s/captions' % (host, video_id), video_id, fatal=False)
 
         subtitles = {}
         for entry in video_captions.get('data'):