spotify-downloader: Download Error "as no match could be found on youtube"

I’m having a problem when I download a song or playlist from spotify but I never had a problem with spotdl, I always use it and it works great for me (thanks to the developers for that). I use the “spotdl” command with the playlist or song link. The following error appears on the console: “as no match could be found on youtube”. I hope you can solve it, maybe it is temporary or maybe because of the Google servers crash a few days ago that affected YouTube, however I download from Spotify. Thank you very much to all!

**daredevil@Mateo-Fumis-PC:**/mnt/c/Users/Mateo/Documents/HACKING/Linux/spotify-downloader$ spotdl https://open.spotify.com/track/2rc7BkzO8qepMFAxHtOrXc
Fetching Song...
Skipping Blanco (https://open.spotify.com/track/2rc7BkzO8qepMFAxHtOrXc) as no match could be found on youtube
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Created 4 years ago
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I’m working on a fix on my fork(https://github.com/k0mat/spotify-downloader/) and will make PR when its finished. Although it’s work in progress it should work on most songs and some playlists.

Instruction to use it:

uninstall old versions:
pip uninstall pytube
pip uninstall spotdl

install new versions:
python -m pip install git+https://github.com/nficano/pytube
pip install https://github.com/k0mat/spotify-downloader/archive/next-rel-dev.zip

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k0mat on Dec 23, 2020

Hi everyone, still getting this issue due to a versioning related issue with pytube.

This install command installs pytube3 and not pytube. The pytube3 version from pypi and github is 9.6.4 which has the regex problem and some other problems once the regexes are ported from head.

pip3 install spotdl … Installing collected packages: pytube3 Successfully installed pytube3-9.6.4

How can I use pytube 10.x.x instead of pytube3 9.x.x for my spotdl invocations? Thanks!

Update: I also tried installing from k0mat’s branch which I thought contained a fix (replacing the search functions w/ YT music APIs). Seems like the following install still picks up pytube3-9.6.4

pip3 install https://github.com/k0mat/spotify-downloader/archive/next-rel-dev.zip

ZhouYii on Jan 1, 2021