pytube: [BUG] Exception while accessing title

PY Script:

> file1 = open('YTVlist.txt', 'r')
> Urls = file1.readlines()
> file2 = open('YTVTitles.txt', 'w', encoding='utf-8')
> for line in Urls:
>     dummy = []
>     try:
>          yt = YouTube(line)
>     except VideoUnavailable:
>          print('Video {line} is unavaialable, skipping.')
>          file2.write('Video {line} is unavaialable, skipping.')
>     else:
>          print(YouTube(line).title + ";" + line)
>          dummy = YouTube(line).title
>          #TL = dummy.encode('utf-8')
>          file2.write(dummy + ";" + line)

OUTPUT:

Traceback (most recent call last): File “C:\Python\Python310\lib\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 “C:\Users\ricca\Documents\PythonFiles\YouTube_Get_Title-Author.py”, line 35, in <module> print(YouTube(line).title + “;” + line) File “C:\Python\Python310\lib\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=ZL44_lhJCPg. Please file a bug report at https://github.com/pytube/pytube

pytube updated via GitHub for Windows $ py -m pip install git+https://github.com/pytube/pytube

C:\Users\ricca\Documents\PythonFiles>py --version Python 3.10.8

C:\Users\ricca\Documents\PythonFiles>pip install pytube Requirement already satisfied: pytube in c:\python\python310\lib\site-packages (12.1.2)

C:\Users\ricca\Documents\PythonFiles>

About this issue

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State: open
Created a year ago
Reactions: 1
Comments: 24 (1 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

fix bug with title in pytube see: https://github.com/pytube/pytube/issues/1473#issuecomment-1575336046 — committed to atilatech/atila-core-service by ademidun a year ago

Most upvoted comments

As of now, this helps: https://github.com/pytube/pytube/commit/c0d1aca42c4106e77ab4f8a0600737ea2ad27a96#diff-34b7de4e054a59b9c9a386a81fac050960951773737b50b5c8b746db6a364d47

DenJan123 on May 5, 2023

I am also getting that error a lot. I am able to get around this with this little hack:

yt = YouTube(url)
while True:
    try:
        title = yt.title
        break
    except:
        print("Failed to get name. Retrying...")
        sleep(1)
        yt = YouTube(url)
        continue

tiagocborg on Mar 27, 2023

pytube.innertube._default_clients['ANDROID']=pytube.innertube._default_clients['WEB']

Solution from @Shinku-Chen https://github.com/pytube/pytube/commit/c0d1aca42c4106e77ab4f8a0600737ea2ad27a96#commitcomment-111941588

ademidun on Jun 4, 2023

Why is this issue closed?

I want to point out that this issue was probably one of the first, but also there is an ongoing explosion of new issues referring to this same problem - and many of them don’t even have an issue title…

The lack of the most basic etiquette is astounding. My sympathy to the maintainers first and foremost and to anyone earnestly attempting to help amidst the chaos.

alexerhardt on May 3, 2023