ImportError: cannot import name 'YoutubeSearch'

Hey, I’m pretty sure this issue is my own fault, but whenever running the example code given I get the error:

"ImportError: cannot import name 'YoutubeSearch'"

I’ve tried installing the library on both windows and linux (I use the windows terminal), both through:

pip (or pip3) install youtube_search

and through github via

pip (or pip3) install git+https://github.com/joetats/youtube_search.git

This is the example code:

from youtube_search import YoutubeSearch

results = YoutubeSearch(‘search terms’, max_results=10).to_json()

print(results)

returns a json string

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results = YoutubeSearch(‘search terms’, max_results=10).to_dict()

print(results)

returns a dictionary

I also have pytube installed if that affects anything?

[cstuart1310]

I’d guess that this is an environment error based on what you’re seeing - pip is probably using python2 but when you use pip3 it’s installing to a different python path

Can you try making a virtual environment so everything is consistent? This way the regular pip command will work correctly. For example, on my Mac I need to do the following to keep everything in python3:

python3.8 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

pip install youtube-search

Windows would be similar:

python3.8 -m venv venv
venv\Scripts\activate

pip install youtube-search

Super sorry, whole thing was my own stupid mistake. I made a file called youtube_search.py and later abandoned it to test using a different filename, meaning that all the files in the test folder were trying to read my youtube_search file instead of the library. Deleting the youtube_search.py that I made fixed all my issues, thanks.

[cstuart1310]

Didn’t mean to close, I have fat fingers.