Questions tagged [pytube]

For issues relating to the pytube Python library.

pytube is a lightweight, dependency-free library (and command-line utility) for downloading Videos.

Features

  • Support for Both Progressive & DASH Streams
  • Easily Register on_download_progress & on_download_complete callbacks
  • Command-line Interfaced Included
  • Caption Track Support
  • Outputs Caption Tracks to .srt format (SubRip Subtitle)
  • Ability to Capture Thumbnail URL.
  • Extensively Documented Source Code
  • No Third-Party Dependencies

Where to learn more

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In Pytube, is there any way to get the highest audio quality stream?

I was trying to make a really simple python code to get me the stream with the highest quality audio, so I first tried something like this def get_highest_audio(url): yt = YouTube(url) best_audio_stream =…
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Showing progress in pytube

import pytube def video_downloader(): vid_url=str(input("Enter Video URL: ")) print('Connecting, Please wait...') video=pytube.YouTube(vid_url) Streams=video.streams File_name=input('File Name:') Format=input('Audio Or Video…
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Scraping more that the first page of YouTube video with inputted keywords

I am trying to scrape YouTube videos based on a certain (or set of ) keywords. So far I can download only the first page of YouTube videos - roughly 20-30 videos. So far, I have used BeautifulSoup, urllib.request and pytube to do the needful. I am…
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pytube to download filtered video and audio together

I am using the simplest possible code to download bunch of youtube videos: from pytube import YouTube link=[ "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb9CjDjqNC4", "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmmKCDvsFy8", …
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"KeyError: title" with PyTube

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…
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How to download a youtube video using Python?

I'm trying to download a YouTube video using it's url in python but I'm getting: urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden I'm using the Python library pytube to download the youtube video. Here is my code: #importing the module from…
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Is there a progress bar feature for pytube?

I want to add a progress bar to the youtube download feature. what modules do I need to represent this bar? I tried importing tqdm and I created a default progress bar using a for loop over a range of 1000. However, I don't know how I'll use tqdm…
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pytube throwing 'get_throttling_function_name: could not find match for multiple' error while trying to download YouTube videos

I'm using the pytube library in my Python project to download YouTube videos. Everything was working fine until recently, when I started getting an error from pytube. I'm sure my pytube is up-to-date. Here's the function where I use pytube: ` # from…
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How to properly convert Pytube bufferIO to numpy array representing sine wave?

Problem: I'm trying to download audio from Youtube via Pytube, save it to buffer (I don't want to save the audio to drive) and then convert it to numpy array in order to plot a raw audio wave. After conversion I'm trying to convert it back to sound…
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PyTube Request Gives 410 HTTP Response

it gives this error raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp) urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 410: Gone But few days back it was working fine I wanted to download a video from youtube from pytube import YouTube # Define the YouTube…
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can't retrieve youtube title using yt.title from pytube library

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…
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AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'span' when using pytube

I am having an issue when downloading a video from pytube module. I tried updating pytube, downloading it again, and still does not work. I am using Python 3.11 and this is my code: def progress_function(stream, chunk, bytes_remaining): …
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Get playlist URL count using pytube

I'm trying to print how many links there are in the playlist. Code from pytube import Playlist p = Playlist('https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRmF_eQXS6BnZb0PnIOvpxD6H8F04DfBX') print(f'Downloading: {p.title}') print((p.video_urls)) for…
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I want to bypass the age restriction on a youtube video

from pytube import YouTube youtubeObject = YouTube(link,on_progress_callback=self.Download_Progress) title = youtubeObject.title if youtubeObject.age_restricted: youtubeObject.bypass_age_gate() Tried to bypass the age restriction with the code…
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Pytube Channel video_urls is does not working

I want to scrape a youtube channel with pytube Channel but I get an index error because I got zero URLs. Anything else is working well just video_urls is not working. my code: c = Channel("https://www.youtube.com/c/BuildEmpire") print(f"This is a…
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