getting Http error 404 in Pytube. What is reason for this?

python youtube-api http-error pytube
shadow5893 picture shadow5893 · May 20, 2021 · Viewed 7.3k times · Source

Error message/code

This code used to work 4 days back now it is showing error. I tried using pytube3 but that does not help.

from pytube import YouTube** 
YouTube('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbBsqmKclXE').streams**

HTTPError Traceback (most recent call last) in ()
----> 1 YouTube('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbBsqmKclXE').streams

14 frames
/usr/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py in http_error_default(self, req, fp, code, msg, hdrs)

647 class HTTPDefaultErrorHandler(BaseHandler):
648     def http_error_default(self, req, fp, code, msg, hdrs):

--> 649 raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp) 650 651 class HTTPRedirectHandler(BaseHandler):

HTTPError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

Answer

shadow5893 picture shadow5893 · May 20, 2021

This issue has been fixed by Ssuwani. You can install Pytube from

pip install git+https://github.com/ssuwani/pytube

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