can't retrieve youtube title using yt.title from pytube library

Question

After running this:

from pytube import YouTube

yt = YouTube('http://youtube.com/watch?v=2lAe1cqCOXo')
print(yt.title)

python version 3.11.3

I receive this error:

raceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\jay\PycharmProjects\pythonProject\youtube.py", line 4, in <module>
    print(yt.title)
          ^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\jay\PycharmProjects\pythonProject\venv\Lib\site-packages\pytube\__main__.py", line 346, in title
    raise exceptions.PytubeError(
pytube.exceptions.PytubeError: Exception while accessing title of https://youtube.com/watch?v=2lAe1cqCOXo.

I was expecting to receive a title

since yesterday pytube doesn't work at all **__main__.py", line 161, in streaming_data return self.vid_info['streamingData'] KeyError: 'streamingData'** Did YouTube change something? — Module_art, Apr 27 '23 at 21:27
tnx, what other options do we have? youtube-dl is also not working — Jay, Apr 28 '23 at 02:01

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 29 '23 at 07:27

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According to the solution here

Try going to Pytube/innertube.py in line 78 change client = 'ANDRIOD' to client = 'WEB'

for newbies using linux like me: Pytube is hidden somewhere in /home/user/.local/share/...(virtualenvs depending on your's)

answered May 29 '23 at 07:27

S7bvwqX

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 15 '23 at 14:29

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Try going to Pytube/__main__.py in line 244 change client = 'ANDRIOD' to client = 'WEB'

this worked for me.

edited May 15 '23 at 14:29

Tomerikoo

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answered May 15 '23 at 14:21

krishi

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Modifying libraries isn't usually a good idea. Is there an alternative? – ChrisGPT was on strike May 15 '23 at 19:54
@Chris no need to worry, it's totally fine. Sometimes there are bugs in modules, so we have to dive in the code to fix it – krishi May 17 '23 at 04:57

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 16 '23 at 16:35

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I started using yt-dlp plugin.

answered Jun 16 '23 at 16:35

Jay

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can't retrieve youtube title using yt.title from pytube library

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