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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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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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Need to turn YouTube link into sound file more quickly

I have a list of YouTube links that I'd like to download just the sound file (a list of albums, that I'm going to then turn into .wav files to analyze). I've been using Pytube, but it's very slow and I'm hoping to find a way to possibly compress the…
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Pytube RegexMatchError

I am trying to write script in python where a user is prompted to enter a youtube link on the command line. This link should then be downloaded from pytube import YouTube downloadFile = raw_input("Enter your Youtube link:…
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PyTube, URLlib, Http packages giving error while trying to download youtube video

I am trying to download youtube video using PyTube package but I am unable to do so. I am using Python 3.5 and pytube 9.2.2. Urllib doesn't give me an error in other programs but it is giving me errors here. The code I am using is: #importing the…
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How to undo youtube changes for an uploaded video

When i upload a movie to youtube and then download it from the given link, it is the same movie but the files bites are altered... is there a way to undo youtube encoding so the file i upload and the file i downloaded will be 100% the same?? i am…
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Pytube givng an "HTTP Error 404: Not Found" error. Anyone knows how to fix this?

I'm having a problem trying to use the pytube package to download a video from YouTube. I'm getting a "HTTP Error 404: Not Found" error. Is anyone familiar with this error? I've been trying to research about this but yet to find anything that causes…
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Why pytube and pytube3 doesnt work at all after installation

Writing a script to download a YouTube video I face the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "c:\Users\migue\Desktop\PythonScripts\main.py", line 1, in from pytube import YouTube ModuleNotFoundError: No module named…
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Trouble understanding the pytube "first" method

So if I understand correctly the first method downloads the highest quality stream available with audio. But I noticed that it seems to only download the 320p version of a video, although when I filter the same link to download a 720p video, it…
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Audio out of synch when combining video and audio with moviepy

I wrote myself a little youtube downloader for practice, that can download video and audio. So the problem is, that the formats Full HD <= mostly don't contain any audio. So my solution for that is to just download the audio seperatly and combine it…
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Extract audio from YouTube video

I'm trying to extract the audio from a pytube video, then convert it into wav format. For extracting the audio from the video, I tried to use moviepy, but I can't find a way to open a video file from bytes with VideoFileClip. I don't want to keep…
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How to fix this problem in python in pytube?

Hello i get following error: pytube.exceptions.RegexMatchError: get_ytplayer_config: could not find match for config_patterns My python version: 3.9.2 Can somebody please help me? My Code: from tkinter import ttk from tkinter import filedialog from…
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Problem downloading (pytube) library in Python

I want to download a library from Python libraries called (pytube) When I place the download command [pip install git + https: //github.com/pytube/pytube] in the cmd panel, the following output will come out: Collecting…
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Unable to reach long playlist with pytube

I'm trying to download videos from youtube using pytube, but with some playlists I get the error urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found. I think this may happen with long playlists; I have tried with playlist of up to fifteen videos…
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How can I filter and limit filesize that PyTube downloads?

I am writing a Python script that is supposed to download YouTube videos using the PyTube Python library. However the downloaded video must not exceed file size of 200MB. At the same time I don't want to just assume and download a low quality 480p…
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Pytube set Resolution

I can download Videos with this code with Pytube: from pytube import Youtube Youtube('youryoutubelink').streams.first().download() But when I open the Video, it is very low resolution. I want to have 720p/1080p. How can I set this in my code?
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