pytube: [BUG] - Exception while accessing title

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Describe the bug When trying to access the title of a specific video, the error “Exception while accessing title” raises up. The error doesn’t raise up with another video.

To Reproduce

Use the url “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2-HtllN0NA” for this test
Create a YouTube object with this url
Try to retrieve the title of the video

Expected behavior The title is correctly retrieved

Output Traceback (most recent call last): File “/home/administrateur/PycharmProjects/youtube_downloader/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pytube/main.py”, line 341, in title self._title = self.vid_info[‘videoDetails’][‘title’] KeyError: ‘videoDetails’

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last): File “/home/administrateur/PycharmProjects/youtube_downloader/main.py”, line 13, in <module> print(f"Le titre de la video est : {youtube_video.title}") File “/home/administrateur/PycharmProjects/youtube_downloader/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pytube/main.py”, line 346, in title raise exceptions.PytubeError( pytube.exceptions.PytubeError: Exception while accessing title of https://youtube.com/watch?v=d2-HtllN0NA. Please file a bug report at https://github.com/pytube/pytube

System information Please provide the following information:

Python version: 3.10.6
Pytube version: 12.1.3
Command used to install pytube: pip install git+https://github.com/pytube/pytube

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Created a year ago
Reactions: 10
Comments: 18

Most upvoted comments

I was able to solve it with retryWithBackoff approach. Just put https://pypi.org/project/backoff/ decorator on your function which requests it(if you can afford it and it’s idempotent, ofc) and works smoothly for me. For those, who don’t have time to debug issues with this library.

That is one cool hint. Thanks a lot!

In case someone would be interested I pass my code (it’s about description and not title but the issue is the same).
@backoff.on_exception(backoff.expo, (pytube.exceptions.PytubeError, ValueError), max_time=60)
    def _get_description_with_backoff(self) -> str:
        self._pytube = self._get_pytube()  # returns a pytube.YouTube object
        desc = self._pytube.description
        if not desc:
            raise ValueError
        return self._pytube.description

Thank you very much! and to @JoaoEmanuell as well. Very cool.

wenger9 on Apr 27, 2023

I was able to solve it with retryWithBackoff approach.

Just put https://pypi.org/project/backoff/ decorator on your function which requests it(if you can afford it and it’s idempotent, ofc) and works smoothly for me.

For those, who don’t have time to debug issues with this library.

That is one cool hint. Thanks a lot!

In case someone would be interested I pass my code (it’s about description and not title but the issue is the same).

@backoff.on_exception(backoff.expo, (pytube.exceptions.PytubeError, ValueError), max_time=60)
    def _get_description_with_backoff(self) -> str:
        self._pytube = self._get_pytube()  # returns a pytube.YouTube object
        desc = self._pytube.description
        if not desc:
            raise ValueError
        return self._pytube.description

z33kz33k on Apr 23, 2023

I was able to solve it with retryWithBackoff approach.

Just put https://pypi.org/project/backoff/ decorator on your function which requests it(if you can afford it and it’s idempotent, ofc) and works smoothly for me.

For those, who don’t have time to debug issues with this library.

0xRaduan on Apr 22, 2023

Same issue here, when in debug mode you can wait and eventually it (sometimes) load the requested resource, but other times, it won’t even work there.

borgnetzwerk on Apr 22, 2023

Same issue but each time.

maen007 on Apr 22, 2023

Same issue, so no title at my outputs. Is there any way to bypsas this issue or we have to wait for a fix?

yologamer21022 on Apr 22, 2023

I’m having the same issue, only about 10% of the requests are going through.

datavisual1919 on Apr 21, 2023