pytube: 404 on adaptive downloads

I’m getting a 404 from youtube when I attempt to download adaptive streams. Progressive is fine, but those aren’t the highest quality videos. Is there a work around for this one?

from pytube import YouTube
yt_video = YouTube("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFSVoVOvaew")
yt_video.streams.filter(adaptive=True).order_by('resolution').first().download()

Returns

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Users/kaiser/tmp/pytube/pytube/streams.py", line 245, in download
    bytes_remaining = self.filesize
  File "/Users/kaiser/tmp/pytube/pytube/streams.py", line 156, in filesize
    self._filesize = request.filesize(self.url)
  File "/Users/kaiser/tmp/pytube/pytube/request.py", line 86, in filesize
    return int(head(url)["content-length"])
  File "/Users/kaiser/tmp/pytube/pytube/request.py", line 98, in head
    response_headers = _execute_request(url, method="HEAD").info()
  File "/Users/kaiser/tmp/pytube/pytube/request.py", line 27, in _execute_request
    return urlopen(request)  # nosec
  File "/Users/kaiser/.pyenv/versions/3.8.2/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 222, in urlopen
    return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
  File "/Users/kaiser/.pyenv/versions/3.8.2/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 531, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/Users/kaiser/.pyenv/versions/3.8.2/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 640, in http_response
    response = self.parent.error(
  File "/Users/kaiser/.pyenv/versions/3.8.2/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 569, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/Users/kaiser/.pyenv/versions/3.8.2/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 502, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/Users/kaiser/.pyenv/versions/3.8.2/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 649, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

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This is still an issue, it should not be marked as stale.

kpister on Oct 12, 2020

nevermind it was 10.8.4 not 5 sorry about that

ellisju37073 on Jun 21, 2021

I have pytube version 10.9.3 but still error 404 is coming it was working 2-3 months ago but now its not working😕

Chillysinger17 on Jul 24, 2021

oh, that’s weird! I’ll see if I can figure out why that’s happening. Can you give me an example of a video where you’re having this issue? You said you’ve had it happen only occasionally, so I’ll need to see an example of one that doesn’t work so I can try to figure out what’s causing the problem

Hey, it’s hard to say… I did nothing but just retry the bad case. It works for me! Anyway, thanks a lot for your help!

XM-WANG on Apr 1, 2021

@XM-WANG this problem should be fixed as of November of last year. Check to make sure that you have the most recent version of pytube with the following code:

import pytube
print(pytube.__version__)

Currently, pytube is on version 10.6.1. If you’re using an older version, you can update with python -m pip install --upgrade pytube

tfdahlin on Mar 31, 2021

@tfdahlin Sure, here it goes

Code

from pytube import YouTube
YouTube('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUWxSEwctFU').streams.filter(adaptive=True).order_by('resolution').last().download() # Works well
YouTube('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60hUgAjmHG4').streams.filter(adaptive=True).order_by('resolution').last().download() # Wrong metadata
YouTube('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZeIzUvt3kg').streams.filter(adaptive=True).order_by('resolution').last().download() # Wrong metadata

Metadata for each video combine_images (6)

GustavoStahl on Nov 5, 2020

@tfdahlin I tested your branch with some videos that were resulting in Error 404 and it worked very well

GustavoStahl on Nov 5, 2020