"KeyError: title" with PyTube

Question

I have the following code:

from pytube import YouTube

yt = YouTube('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0')
print(yt.title)

And am being thrown the following error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\tom\Desktop\Desktop\archiver.py", line 4, in <module>
    print(yt.title)
  File "C:\Users\tom\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\pytube\__main__.py", line 254, in title
    return self.player_config_args['title']
KeyError: 'title'

What is going wrong here?

This is fixed in pytube3 https://github.com/hbmartin/pytube3 — Martin, Feb 08 '20 at 21:34

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 30 '19 at 22:03

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A lot of people having this issue, one suggested thing to try is to make the following changes mentioned in this pull request.

https://github.com/nficano/pytube/pull/435/files.

answered Aug 30 '19 at 22:03

Deven

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Thank you, but how do I make these changes? – tom894 Aug 30 '19 at 22:12
Include the code in green in place of code in red in your file at the location ......./pytube/__main__.py – Deven Aug 30 '19 at 22:18

"KeyError: title" with PyTube

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