youtube-dl

How to format output video/audio name with youtube-dl embed? Question: I’m writing a python script that downloads videos from a URL using youtube-dl. Here’s the code: def downloadVideos(videoURL): ydl_opts = { ‘format’: ‘bestvideo,bestaudio’, } with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl: ydl.download([videoURL]) The above method downloads an mp4 file for the video and a m4a file for the …

pytube: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'span' cipher.py Question: Yesterday this works fine, today i’m getting error on my local machine, colab notebook, even on my VPS. /usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/pytube/cipher.py in get_throttling_plan(js) 409 match = plan_regex.search(raw_code) 410 –> 411 transform_plan_raw = find_object_from_startpoint(raw_code, match.span()[1] – 1) 412 413 # Steps are either c[x](c[y]) or c[x](c[y],c[z]) from pytube …

Error: Unable to extract uploader id – Youtube, Discord.py Question: I have a veary powerfull bot in discord (discord.py, PYTHON) and it can play music in voice channels. It gets the music from youtube (youtube_dl). It worked perfectly before but now it dosn’t wanna work with any video. I tried updataing youtube_dl but it still …

youtube-dl :: how to listen to audio while downloading Question: I know that I can download an audio track from YouTube through this easy command: youtube-dl -f 251 ‘http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRIF4_WzU1w’ Lately YouTube has been slowing down the download speed. Is there a way I can listen to the audio while downloading the track? Where is the …

Python & YoutubeDL, retrive info-json, modify it and work with it Question: I need to work with only a part of the info-json that youtubedl obtains: the problem is in a video platform where, in the browser, you can watch the video or download/hear the audio file (that is besides the internal audio files from …

What is the fastest/ most lightweight way of getting html after javascript have excuted? Question: The problem is that youtube API for searching is very limiting, so i’ve resorted to webscraping the search result page. So far i’ve tried to use seleiunm to load the page and get the html, but it have quite a …

Python youtube_dl does not allow to download age-restricted videos Question: I have this following code: from youtube_dl import YoutubeDL videos = […] with YoutubeDL() as ydl: ydl.download(videos) And this is the error: WARNING: unable to download video info webpage: HTTP Error 410: Gone ERROR: Sign in to confirm your age This video may be inappropriate …

Can I use yt-dlp to extract only one video info from a playlist? Question: Here’s my code using Python (simplified version): import yt_dlp YDL_OPTIONS = { ‘format’: ‘bestaudio*’, ‘noplaylist’: True, } with yt_dlp.YoutubeDL(YDL_OPTIONS) as ydl: info = ydl.extract_info(url, download=False) The problem comes up when the url directs to a playlist (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlrATfBNZ98dudnM48yfGUldqGD0S4FFb) Here’s the output: …

Porting code from youtube-dl to yt-dlp library for Python Discord Bot Question: This is my first question here therefore I hope this format is fine. I’ve searched for the issue on internet and checked the documentation of yt-dlp however could not find something useful or maybe I just dont understand what to do. In a …

Python buffered IO ending early streaming with multiple pipes Question: I’m trying to make a continuous livestream of videos downloaded via yt-dlp. I need to port this (working) bash command into Python. ( youtube-dl -v –buffer-size 16k https://youtube.com/watch?v=QiInzFHIDp4 -o – | ffmpeg -i – -f mpegts -c copy – ; youtube-dl -v –buffer-size 16k https://youtube.com/watch?v=QiInzFHIDp4 …