I have a problem with dislike error when creating an pafy.new url, perhaps it's because youtube hid numer of dislikes

Question

import pafy
import vlc
url = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_D3VFfhvs4"
video = pafy.new(url)

KeyError: 'dislike_count'

Workroom

The latest commit to github.com/mps-youtube/pafy is from 5 months ago. Its issues page (github.com/mps-youtube/pafy/issues) already has reports of that exact error; clearly that module is out-of-date. There's already a Pull Request with the fix, so you'll just have to keep track of it: github.com/mps-youtube/pafy/pull/305 In the future I suggest doing basic research like looking at the module's official pages and all that. All this info was trivial to find. – Germanous

Does this answer your question? backend_youtube_dl.py", line 54, in _fetch_basic self._dislikes = self._ydl_info['dislike_count'] KeyError: 'dislike_count' – Player

please check this answer as it provides a working solution : Solved pafy dislike_count error – Tellurium

Answer 1

There's a less heinous solution than editing package files by using an older version of youtube-dl.

Just run pip install youtube-dl==2020.12.2

Lebron

Answer 2

just comment the line 53 and 54 from backend_youtube_dl.py in your pafy packages path

Ing

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if you are using a virtual env then go to .venv\Lib\site-packages\pafy\backend_youtube_dl.py and comment out the 54 line – Vale

And if you are working with jupyter notebooks you need to restart your kernel to make those changes work with your code – Halfassed

Answer 3

I face this same issue [solved]:

Here is problem screenshot:

How solve this issue?

1: Open Pafy package directory

2: Open backend_youtube_dl.py file in any txt editor

3: Add comment line number 54

Swarts

good solve it work fine :) but I have docker image :( your solution need to do manual work ... – Swindle

I had to comment out likes and dislikes FYI (Jan 2023) – Elielia

Answer 4

Or you can replace these two lines

self._likes = self._ydl_info.get('like_count',0)
self._dislikes = self._ydl_info.get('dislike_count',0)

https://github.com/mps-youtube/pafy/pull/288

Fleabane