Pytube: Getting a KeyError: 'title' when trying to download a playlist

[Ikebani]

im currently getting a key error when trying to download a playlist, anyone know a fix for this?

File "C:\Python34\lib\tkinter\__init__.py", line 1487, in __call__ return self.func(*args) File "D:/Pycharm/idk/playlist activator/youtubedownloaderguiNEW.py", line 38, in func pl.download_all('C:\\pythonmusic',prefix_number= True) File "C:\Users\nicton\PycharmProjects\abs\venv\lib\site-packages\pytube\contrib\playlist.py", line 172, in download_all dl_stream.download(download_path, filename_prefix=prefix) File "C:\Users\nicton\PycharmProjects\abs\venv\lib\site-packages\pytube\streams.py", line 206, in download filename = filename or self.default_filename File "C:\Users\nicton\PycharmProjects\abs\venv\lib\site-packages\pytube\streams.py", line 176, in default_filename title = self.player_config_args['title'] KeyError: 'title'

[GyosunShin]

Me Too.
Something happening here...

I Just tried to download youtube video, It worked well until yesterday But error came out from today
I think something changed in Youtube system

File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/pytube/streams.py", line 206, in download
filename = filename or self.default_filename
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/pytube/streams.py", line 176, in default_filename
title = self.player_config_args['title']
KeyError: 'title'

Please...

[Malfunction13]

Same here lads - it worked yesterday but not today! I have been breaking my head for about 30 minutes now to find a fix.
I am a super beginner in the field and I wanted to devise a simple program that will ask for a YT url-> confirm the title that I want to dl->ask for download location ->confirm download location-> proceed to download

This is the error I get:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Users/David/PycharmProjects/Ultimate YT Downloader/Ultimate YT Downloader.py", line 14, in
print ("Download item: " + yt.title)
File "C:UsersDavidPycharmProjectsUltimate YT Downloadervenvlibsite-packagespytube__main__.py", line 254, in title
return self.player_config_args['title']
KeyError: 'title'

Process finished with exit code 1

My code below:

import sys
import __future__
import pytube
import os

from pytube import YouTube

download_link = input ("Please insert download link: ")
yt = YouTube(download_link)
print ("Download item: " + yt.title)
download_folder = input ("Please insert download folder location:")
print ("Target folder is set to " + download_folder)

YouTube(download_link).streams.first().download(download_folder)

[ndg63276]

Seems like a general error getting the video title:

>>> from pytube import YouTube
>>> yt = YouTube('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0')
>>> yt.title
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "pytube/__main__.py", line 254, in title
    return self.player_config_args['title']
KeyError: 'title'

[ndg63276]

Hopefully that pull request fixes the problem.

[shostakun]

@ndg63276 Thanks for the PR; it seems to fix the issue in the YouTube class, but Stream suffers from the same issue at streams.py:176.

[ndg63276]

@shostakun - Ok, try it now,

[lsantos124]

@ndg63276 that latest fix is working for me. I am able to download videos now. Thanks.

[GyosunShin]

@ndg63276 that latest fix is working for me. I am able to download videos now. Thanks.

How did you fix it?

[lsantos124]

@TheGameIsAboutGlory using the commit the ndg63276 just pushed

[ghost]

@ndg63276 It's working! Thank you.

[apanaee]

it worked for me too, at first thumbnail_url,title,length where not working but they are working now. check out commits on https://github.com/ndg63276/alexa-youtube/commit/94d671dbd5c214a88df6d568b745c36b272b2dc4

[GyosunShin]

it worked for me too, at first thumbnail_url,title,length where not working but they are working now. check out commits on ndg63276/alexa-youtube@94d671d

What is wrong with me...
Even though I fix that code part, I still have KeyError : title from streams.py

[ndg63276]

@TheGameIsAboutGlory there is also a change to streams.py, you can see it here: https://github.com/nficano/pytube/pull/435/files

[apanaee]

sorry, https://github.com/nficano/pytube/issues/434#issuecomment-516767955 i also just realised it.
Thank you https://github.com/nficano/pytube/issues/434#issuecomment-516771176

[Klakinoumi]

Same here with KeyError: 'length_seconds'

[ndg63276]

@Klakinoumi - there is a fix for length_seconds as part of https://github.com/nficano/pytube/pull/435/files

[Klakinoumi]

@ndg63276 Yeah I saw it after posting. Thanks for your help resolving the issue it is greatly appreciated. How can I apply your "patch" easily (sorry I quite a noob on github)?

[GyosunShin]

Thank you Guys So Much!~!~!
You Guys Saved me.
Thanks a lot
Downloading Video is now working fine :)

[ndg63276]

@Klakinoumi - If you use git from the command line, use this command:

git pull origin pull/435/head

If not, you may just have to edit the 2 files manually.

[Klakinoumi]

@ndg63276 Ah ! Thanks for the info.

[heckad]

The reason for this problem is that youtube return on getting video info this 'reason=Invalid+parameters.&status=fail&errorcode=2'. Need to check what youtube return in prefetch method after self.vid_info = request.get(self.vid_info_url)

[bossbrain]

Hopefully that pull request fixes the problem.

Working. thank you

[josanabr]

I executed "git pull origin pull/435/head", compile && install then tried to download a file

YouTube('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=602kWwpHmt0&list=RD602kWwpHmt0&start_radio=1').streams.filter(progressive=True).first().download() and I got this forbidden error

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 556, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

[ndg63276]

@josanabr - might be worth raising a new ticket for that, looks like a new issue.

[mehrant95]

I executed "git pull origin pull/435/head", compile && install then tried to download a file

YouTube('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=602kWwpHmt0&list=RD602kWwpHmt0&start_radio=1').streams.filter(progressive=True).first().download() and I got this forbidden error

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 556, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

I faced the very same problem but i managed to solve it using two other fixes:

1. Apply this fix to mixins.py
2. Apply this fix to cipher.py

Hope it helps.

[LuffyKing]

@TheGameIsAboutGlory there is also a change to streams.py, you can see it here: https://github.com/nficano/pytube/pull/435/files

this works!

[seanvelir]

pip update pytube isn't fixing this. Can I please have some instructions on what I need to do?

[LuffyKing]

You have to edit the source files for pytube on your computer. You will then need to make the following changes below https://github.com/nficano/pytube/pull/435/files. The quickest way to find the files for Pytube, is to import pytube and check it’s ___file___ method!

[michaelcenzo234]

In order to fix the KeyError, you have to specify the filename in the download() functions parameters because pytube looks for a specified filename and if that is not set then it looks for the default title in the self.player_config_args['title'] dictionary entry.

In your script to download a video explicitly define the file name in this one liner
Code Fix:
YouTube(link).streams.first().download(output_path=path, filename=filename)

[SofiyanIfren]

Hi, it didn't solve the problem for me...
Buit this issue did!

[categrame]

Thanks a lot it works for me as well.

[hyunjiyoo]

I did it!! Thank you!!!

[walid5541]

import os
YouTube(link).streams.first().download(output_path=os.getcwd(), filename="myvid")

[Sehaba95]

It worked for me when I specified the filename parameter of download function:
YouTube(link).streams.first().download(output_path=path, filename=filename)

[hbmartin]

fixed in my Python 3 only fork: https://github.com/hbmartin/pytube3

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