Pytube: 1080p not showing?

[stephanemombuleau]

Hi. Thank you for this awesome library.

It appears that 1080p quality never shows up as an option even though it's available on YouTube. Is it a choice (I admit I haven't looked at the source) or an unwanted behavior?

Thanks!

[nficano]

thanks, let me take a look!

[ghost]

The maximum quality available is 720p... No higher than that (tested with 2160p videos). Also, no option for 720p 60fps or 1080p 60fps. I think it's some kind of limit? I am not sure if it was made by nficano on purpose. But still, I enjoy it. I'm newbie at Python and GitHub.. It keeps me kinda hooked :)

[dyeray]

Videos of more than 720p only seem to be available from YouTube by using Media Source Extensions (so they are served as a stream from a javascript API instead of a link to a file). This may be related.

https://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/10/youtube-drops-support-for-1080p-streams.html

[nficano]

Interesting find, I looked into this the other day, I assumed the quality profiles needed to be updated:
https://github.com/nficano/pytube/commit/d625b83f2c2af9afde3fc1c3358662f232de0143

(fwiw these have historically been maintained here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#Quality_and_formats)

But this doesn't seem to fix it. I'm going to poke around similar projects see how they have addressed this, I'll try to have an update today.

[Cg-boy]

Hi.
Is there any progress on getting 1080p to work yet? This is a great library, and I'd like to use it for a youtube downloader I'm working on, but it would be nice to be able to download 1080p videos.

Thanks.

[jetbird]

@Cg-boy I am currently working on this issue :)

[Cg-boy]

@jetbird Okay, thanks.

[jetbird]

I have been hacking the code and I see the 1080p quality video link is not being included in the url_encoded_fmt_stream_map. There is a way to get the separate streams and then join them using ffmpeg. I am ready to implement this feature if @nficano agrees.

[jetbird]

@nficano I pushed the code for solving this issue and also created a PR.

[nficano]

thanks will merge today

[andreif]

Related PR is #136

[Chandrahasabburi]

i think 1080p issue is still not solved. Any leads on this topic ?

[amir3code]

1080 and 2160 are not showing. Your project is not complete

[myelmer]

Is there anything about 1080p?

[ghost]

Video quality 720p+ (even 4k) are available using adaptive_fmts instead of url_encoded_fmt_stream_map, BUT, video is separated from audio.

[nficano]

@myelmer @svkboii I been working hard over the past 2 weeks to do a complete rewrite of pytube (available here: https://github.com/nficano/pytube/tree/7.0.0).

I'm in the burn down phase of getting it releasable, the outstanding tasks are:

• [ ] comments and docstrings
• [ ] unit tests
• [ ] exceptions
• [ ] update readme

This release finally exposes adaptive_fmts which includes the 1080p stream.

[ghost]

Basically, I am working on my own YouTube downloader. I am working on it two days now (yesterday I was doing some research) and I started programming today. I have my own signature function extractor + all video data. Now I am working on the UI. Higher quality videos will be downloaded from dash streams (adaptive_fmts) and video+audio merged using ffmpeg.

[Igorjan94]

Is 60fps and 1080p working now properly?

$ pytube "http://youtube.com/watch?v=spDvpDGVNTA" -l
<Stream: itag="22" mime_type="video/mp4" res="720p" fps="30fps" vcodec="avc1.64001F" acodec="mp4a.40.2">
<Stream: itag="43" mime_type="video/webm" res="360p" fps="30fps" vcodec="vp8.0" acodec="vorbis">
<Stream: itag="18" mime_type="video/mp4" res="360p" fps="30fps" vcodec="avc1.42001E" acodec="mp4a.40.2">
<Stream: itag="36" mime_type="video/3gpp" res="240p" fps="30fps" vcodec="mp4v.20.3" acodec="mp4a.40.2">
<Stream: itag="17" mime_type="video/3gpp" res="144p" fps="30fps" vcodec="mp4v.20.3" acodec="mp4a.40.2">

$ pytube --version                                                 
pytube 9.1.1

But we can see, that video contains 720p60 and 1080p60

[PathToLife]

^ Can confirm that 1080p60fps videos aren't showing.