Spotify-downloader: Unable to find any song on spotify

[DesperatePea]

So i have been using this for a good while now.. however, it seems that every time i open terminal to use this command, something breaks.

I am on SpotDl 3.1.2 and i have been trying to download a song from spotify, by using this command: spotdl [trackURL] It cannot however find anything and gives me these lines of errors:

However no matter what song i type in, it cannot find the song i am looking for. Typing [song name artist] makes the thing look for the songs one word at a time, and it dumps a bunch of .spotTrackingFile files in my folder. What am i doing wrong? Am i missing something? I would like some detailed instructions on how to properly use this, because i have uninstalled and installed spotdl many many times. I used to use v2 but since that no longer works, i can only install v3. Thank you.

[mrlyht]

Also having this issue, I wonder if it has anything to do with youtube-dl being taken down.

Anyway, I "pip3 install --force-reinstall spotdl"ed to be sure. Now I've got version 3.1.2 and it still doesn't work.

When I try using the song url I get this same KeyError and making a query I get "No song named $ could be found on spotify"

[Tejas-MD]

I can confirm the same problem occurring on my pc too since very recently. I got the tracebacks too, and upon force reinstall I got 3.1.2 and says: 'No song named $ could be found on spotify'. Not sure how I've to get it working again.

[MikhailZex]

This is an issue with pytube3. We'll patch it us APSAP. give us a week. Feel free to open a PR with fixes if the wait is too long. Us maintainers a bit busy as of now.

• nficano/pytube #777
• Shifting from the 'old' pytube3 to the new pytube causes ImportError, a new downloader has to be written.

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[MikhailZex]

Try installing the new version v3.1.3

[MikhailZex]

Should be fixed in v3.1.3

Comment below if it isn't.

[mrlyht]

Hey @Mikhail-Zex, thank you! It worked like a charm, and your response was pretty fast!

[MikhailZex]

It wasn't a big fix. I actually expected to take a week+ turned out that it was a problem with pypi serving up pytube.

[MikhailZex]

Hey @Mikhail-Zex, thank you! It worked like a charm, and your response was pretty fast!

And do you wanna help out on spotdl? There is only so much I can do myself. The more contributors, the faster we can get things moving. The whole point if the rewrite was to make contribution easier.

If your interested, drop a comment on 'new org members'. Even small contributions would be helpful.

[Tejas-MD]

Great Fix, Just downloaded a song successfully. Upgrading was a lil hard for me, pip install spotdl --upgrade didn't work at the start. I had to uninstall(which gave some tracebacks) and reinstall with the upgrade command. I might have done something wrong but yeah, I finally got it working.

[MikhailZex]

Its pip install spotdl --upgrade

[Tejas-MD]

That was a typo here. Thanks for the reply.