diff --git a/start-backend.sh b/start-backend.sh
index 57dcce0..de2138b 100755
--- a/start-backend.sh
+++ b/start-backend.sh
@@ -10,6 +10,13 @@ export JAVA_HOME
 export PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSERS_PATH=/home/opc/.cache/ms-playwright
 export PLAYWRIGHT_SKIP_BROWSER_DOWNLOAD=1
 
+# Xvfb virtual display for Playwright head mode (YouTube transcript)
+export DISPLAY=:99
+if ! pgrep -x Xvfb > /dev/null; then
+    Xvfb :99 -screen 0 1280x720x24 -nolisten tcp &
+    sleep 1
+fi
+
 # Playwright driver-bundle requires exploded classpath (fat JAR extraction fails)
 BACKEND_DIR=/home/opc/sundol/sundol-backend
 exec $JAVA_HOME/bin/java -cp "$BACKEND_DIR/target/classes:$BACKEND_DIR/target/dependency/*" com.sundol.SundolApplication
diff --git a/sundol-backend/src/main/java/com/sundol/service/YouTubeTranscriptService.java b/sundol-backend/src/main/java/com/sundol/service/YouTubeTranscriptService.java
index db09521..f691226 100644
--- a/sundol-backend/src/main/java/com/sundol/service/YouTubeTranscriptService.java
+++ b/sundol-backend/src/main/java/com/sundol/service/YouTubeTranscriptService.java
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 package com.sundol.service;
 
-import org.jsoup.Jsoup;
-import org.jsoup.nodes.Document;
+import com.microsoft.playwright.*;
+import com.microsoft.playwright.options.WaitUntilState;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import java.io.IOException;
 import java.net.URLDecoder;
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.time.Duration;
+import java.util.List;
 import java.util.regex.Matcher;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
@@ -45,18 +46,34 @@ public class YouTubeTranscriptService {
         String watchUrl = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=" + videoId;
         log.info("Fetching YouTube transcript for: {}", watchUrl);
 
-        // YouTube 페이지 HTML 가져오기
+        // Playwright head 모드로 YouTube 페이지 HTML 가져오기
         String html;
-        try {
-            Document doc = Jsoup.connect(watchUrl)
-                    .userAgent("Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36")
-                    .header("Accept-Language", "ko-KR,ko;q=0.9,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.7")
-                    .timeout(15_000)
-                    .maxBodySize(0)
-                    .get();
-            html = doc.html();
+        try (Playwright playwright = Playwright.create()) {
+            BrowserType.LaunchOptions launchOptions = new BrowserType.LaunchOptions()
+                    .setHeadless(false)
+                    .setArgs(List.of(
+                            "--no-sandbox",
+                            "--disable-setuid-sandbox",
+                            "--disable-dev-shm-usage"
+                    ));
+
+            try (Browser browser = playwright.chromium().launch(launchOptions)) {
+                BrowserContext context = browser.newContext(new Browser.NewContextOptions()
+                        .setUserAgent("Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36")
+                        .setLocale("ko-KR"));
+                Page page = context.newPage();
+
+                page.navigate(watchUrl, new Page.NavigateOptions()
+                        .setTimeout(30_000)
+                        .setWaitUntil(WaitUntilState.NETWORKIDLE));
+
+                html = page.content();
+                log.info("Playwright fetched YouTube page: {} chars", html.length());
+
+                context.close();
+            }
         } catch (Exception e) {
-            throw new IOException("YouTube 페이지를 가져올 수 없습니다: " + e.getMessage(), e);
+            throw new IOException("YouTube 페이지를 가져올 수 없습니다 (Playwright): " + e.getMessage(), e);
         }
 
         // captionTracks JSON 추출