Recently, I've created a youtube video downloading tool for my bookmark. It is finished and still able to download youtube video. But today when I try to use it, it shows error when I try to run YouTube.streams.
Here's an example code:
from pytube import YouTube
yt = YouTube("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEQ8CXFWLZU&t=525s")
yd = yt.streams.filter(only_audio=True).first()
error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Adrian\Desktop\hey.py", line 5, in <module>
yd = yt.streams.filter(only_audio=True).first()
File "C:\Users\Adrian\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python38\site-packages\pytube\__main__.py", line 296, in streams
return StreamQuery(self.fmt_streams)
File "C:\Users\Adrian\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python38\site-packages\pytube\__main__.py", line 181, in fmt_streams
extract.apply_signature(stream_manifest, self.vid_info, self.js)
File "C:\Users\Adrian\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python38\site-packages\pytube\extract.py", line 409, in apply_signature
cipher = Cipher(js=js)
File "C:\Users\Adrian\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python38\site-packages\pytube\cipher.py", line 43, in __init__
self.throttling_plan = get_throttling_plan(js)
File "C:\Users\Adrian\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python38\site-packages\pytube\cipher.py", line 411, in get_throttling_plan
transform_plan_raw = find_object_from_startpoint(raw_code, match.span()[1] - 1)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'span'
I've also made a exe file of the python code and it also stop working. Looking forward to get an answer.
YouTube has most probably changed their code again.
In Cipher.py, go to line 411:
transform_plan_raw = find_object_from_startpoint(raw_code, match.span()[1] - 1)
Change it to:
transform_plan_raw = js
In Cipher.py, at line 407,
transform_start = r"try{"
plan_regex = re.compile(transform_start)
match = plan_regex.search(raw_code)
In the above code snippet, the match object is defined as the regex matches of plan_regex (which is r"try{") found in the raw_code object. However, when I tried to get what the raw_code object actually returns, I got this value:
mma=function(a){var b=a.split(""),c=[1298660008,function(d,e,f,h,l,m){return e(h,l,m)},968655468,function(){for(var d=64,e=[];++d-e.length-32;)switch(d){case 46:d=95;default:e.push(String.fromCharCode(d));case 94:case 95:case 96:break;case 123:d-=76;case 92:case 93:continue;case 58:d=44;case 91:}return e},56115230,-578061081,-516346513,b,-1739695292,-1031455761,/[,\]],[\]];}.
As you can notice, there is not a single mention of try{ here, hence when the plan_regex.search method is called for raw_code, it finds no matches and return None. Therefore, while seeking for the span attribute of match object, it raises the Error: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'span'.
So basically, instead of searching for the try{ string in the raw_code, we're just passing the input js parameter to the transform_plan_raw object.