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

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Using pytube library to download youtube links from csv

I'm trying to use the pytube library to download a bunch of links I have on a .csv file. EDIT: WORKING CODE: import sys reload(sys) sys.setdefaultencoding('Cp1252') import os.path from pytube import YouTube from pprint import pprint import…
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Pytube Error: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Client'

I've been trying to use the Pytube module and every time I use its Client attribute it keeps coming up with the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in client =…
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Error while implementing progress_bar in pytube3

I am implementing a youtube video downloader using pytube3. In the following progress_bar() function I am getting an positional argument missing error. My progress_bar() function: def progress_bar(stream, chunk, file_handle, bytes_remaining): …
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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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"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 do I rename the downloaded file from pytube automatically?

I'm new to Python, and have only worked with PHP 5 in the past, (many years ago now). As a beginner project I thought I'd make a YouTube downloader using pytube that lets you choose whether to download a video in highest quality or only download the…
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How to combine pytube and tkinter label to show progress?

I am writing small program which downloads song from youtube (using pytube) and I want to add python tkinter GUI to show percent value when the file is downloading. Now when I execute my code, program at first downloads the file (takes about 60sec)…
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PYTUBE module error

Every time I try to use the PYTUBE module it shows this error. from pytube import YouTube ImportError: cannot import name 'YouTube'
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Pytube download a video directly to s3 bucket location

I'm using pytube library to download videos. Locally I was directing the output_path variable in the download function of pytube to a place where I desired the video to be downloaded on my local system. However, now since I'm using the AWS Free EC2…
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How to fix this ? pytube.exceptions.RegexMatchError: get_ytplayer_config: could not find match for config_patterns

When I'm trying to download videos using pytube I'm getting this error. I'm using letest version of pytube. raise RegexMatchError(caller="get_ytplayer_config", pattern="config_patterns") pytube.exceptions.RegexMatchError: get_ytplayer_config: could…
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Getting the title of youtube video in pytube3?

I am trying to build an app to download YouTube videos in python using pytube3. But I am unable to retrieve the title of the video. Here goes my code: from pytube import YouTube yt = YouTube(link) print(yt.title) No matter whatever is the link I…
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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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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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How to combine audio and video in Pytube?

I am trying to write a code to download YouTube videos using Pytube on Python 3.6. But for most videos progressive download(Audio and Video in same file) format is available only upto 360p. So I want to download audio and video files separately and…
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Downloading several videos at the same time using pytube

I made a program that is able to download and convert the youtube playlist video into mp3. However, this program does one task at a time. Is it possible to make so that it can download and convert several videos at the same time? I tried searching…
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