Pytube: Playlist.video_urls giving empty list for a playlist url

[Winedays]

I'm following the sample in readme to get the videos in a playlist but it return a empty list when I call Playlist.video_urls.

Here is my test code and it run on Python-3.7.9 and pytube-10.0.0.

>>> from pytube import Playlist
>>> p = Playlist('https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS1QulWo1RIaJECMeUT4LFwJ-ghgoSH6n')
>>> p
1
[]
>>> p.title
'Python Tutorial for Beginners (For Absolute Beginners)'
>>> p.playlist_id
'PLS1QulWo1RIaJECMeUT4LFwJ-ghgoSH6n'
>>> p.playlist_url
'https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS1QulWo1RIaJECMeUT4LFwJ-ghgoSH6n'
>>> p.video_urls
[]

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[diego-aquino]

Same here :/

[P-T1ps]

Me to :(

[P-T1ps]

Alright so I haven't used pytube in ages before this and my first time making a request it didn't work however when I connected to a vpn ("to change my ip") it worked fine....

[L-upo]

For me it worked fine at first but from one day to another I had the same problem

[tfdahlin]

Hi, I'll try to look into this problem soon

[Master-JS]

Help!!!!!
Same here :/

[tfdahlin]

https://github.com/nficano/pytube/pull/860 this PR fixes the problem for me locally. Once it passes tests, I'll merge it.

[tfdahlin]

Should be fixed now.
You can install the latest update with python -m pip install git+https://github.com/nficano/pytube

[cwright1162]

I've installed the latest update, and the playlist still returns an empty list along with a "1."

[tfdahlin]

@cwright1162 can you provide the playlist url you're using so I can test it please?

[cwright1162]

@tfdahlin of course! I actually meant to paste it in - My Bad!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV8-xq2sXzY6kNkMU1X8e9ECG2AozLDWw

[tfdahlin]

When I try to access that page, I see this:

Are you sure you've copied the playlist link correctly?

[cwright1162]

When I try to access that page, I see this:

Are you sure you've copied the playlist link correctly?

Strange. Yes, I've definitely copied it correctly.

[tfdahlin]

Are you sure this is a public playlist?

[kyoplank]

with me is also giving the same thing

public_playlist = ['https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_PkvixazWavdvV-OBx5VQvag4QoUxpSA']

[cwright1162]

Well, although I originally made this playlist public, I must not have saved it as such. I'll do more testing and come back if the issue remains.. Thank you!

[Shin0SAKA]

I am stacking on the same step.

The counting the number of playlist can be solved by this way shown below

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64184927/pytube-playlist-is-returning-empty-array

This new list does not work in YouTube class from pytube, though...

[tfdahlin]

@KyoFL are you sure you've installed the most recent version of pytube? When I run against that playlist, I don't have any problems.

@Shin0SAKA what playlist are you having this problem with?

[L-upo]

@KyoFL are you sure you've installed the most recent version of pytube? When I run against that playlist, I don't have any problems.

@Shin0SAKA what playlist are you having this problem with?

I've got the same problem(empty list in return and a "1") with this (public, correctly copied) playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2VSP-l20r1NbjSnx6Mey6iJ6SWMoDrUv
I've also installed the latest pytube version.

[tdheyes]

yeah I'm getting empty list in return and a "1" as well.

[kyoplank]

I just created a virtual environment and installed pytube again and I have the same error
@tfdahlin

[tfdahlin]

@KyoFL just to confirm, how did you install pytube? Did you run python -m pip install pytube, or python -m pip install git+https://github.com/nficano/pytube? The code has not yet been pushed to pypi, so you'll need to install directly from the github repo with the second command. I can't seem to replicate this problem when I install the code from source on my machine.

[Shin0SAKA]

To @tdheyes ,
I had the same output/phenomenon as @KyoFL did.

If the playlist was sorted by re.function, I could count the number of list by len(playlist) as indicated in the link above.
But, the new list did not work as the url in YouTube class...

[kyoplank]

@tfdahlin I used git + https: //github.com/nficano/pytube

[kyoplank]

I still have the bash open @tfdahlin

[tfdahlin]

@kyoFL I think you're misunderstanding slightly. you don't need to use git clone here -- if you copy and paste this:
python -m pip install git+https://github.com/nficano/pytube
It will automatically install directly from the source code.

Can you run this and tell me what the output it gives you is please?:

>>> import inspect
>>> from pytube.extract import initial_data
>>> print(inspect.getsource(initial_data))

[kyoplank]

hmmm, I may have done something wrong @tfdahlin

[tfdahlin]

Yeah, you definitely still have the version of pytube that's on pypi, and not the current, updated source code.

Are you currently running this on a Windows machine that has powershell?

[tfdahlin]

If so, try opening up powershell and running the following commands by copy and pasting them into powershell:
cd "C:\Python3.8
.\python.exe -m pip uninstall pytube
.\python.exe -m pip install git+https://github.com/nficano/pytube

[kyoplank]

it worked!! thank you very much dude s2 @tfdahlin

I think I needed to uninstall the old version first, right?
because I had already installed it directly from the repository