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

Question

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

Artina

Is what you try to get available online? Can you see selected video in web browser? – Melindamelinde

yes. I am able to view in browser. you can check that too. – Artina

Is this even a valid YouTube API endpoint? Possibly related to https://mcmap.net/q/524203/-get_video_info-youtube-endpoint-suddenly-returning-404-not-found/1841839 – Insidious

Does this answer your question? Pytube givng an “HTTP Error 404: Not Found” error. Anyone knows how to fix this? – Simplify

I had this problem, upgrading to 10.8.4 solved it. – Assiduity

Answer 1

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

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

Artina

PyTube official release is also updated with the fix. – Colosseum

Error still persists with pytube==10.8.2.Tried http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsDtnTvgDB0 if it helps to debug – Academic

This still doesn't work . – Gilud

pytube-10.8.5 got the fix – Seamus

I am usung pytube 10.9.3 with python 3.9.5 on Windows 10 and this error occurs. Even after installing pytibe 10.8.5 doesvthe error persist. – Allenaallenby

Pytube 10.8.1 python 3.9.6 still getting the same error – Eidolon

Pytube 10.8.1 python 3.9.6 still getting the same error. Me too. – Kennithkennon

I tried Pytube 10.8.1 python 3.9.5 with this command, as well as pytube 10.9.3 with command pip install pytube but same error for both cases. – Feature

This issue is happening currently in pytube 10.9.3 – Emendation