json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Unterminated string starting at: line 1 column 28 (char 27)

Hello! Inexperienced Github & Python user here! I’m running into an issue pulling in a specific video from YouTube. I’m running Pytube 9.7.0 on PyCharm Community Edition 2020.1.4. The code is as follows:

from pytube import YouTube

yt = YouTube("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ")
print(yt.title)

Expect output should be:

Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Video)

But instead, I’m getting:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/user/AppData/Roaming/JetBrains/PyCharmCE2020.1/scratches/scratch.py", line 3, in <module>
    yt = YouTube("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ")
  File "C:\Users\user\Projects\PycharmProjects\venv\lib\site-packages\pytube\__main__.py", line 103, in __init__
    self.descramble()
  File "C:\Users\user\Projects\PycharmProjects\venv\lib\site-packages\pytube\__main__.py", line 123, in descramble
    self.player_config_args = get_ytplayer_config(self.watch_html)[
  File "C:\Users\user\Projects\PycharmProjects\venv\lib\site-packages\pytube\extract.py", line 203, in get_ytplayer_config
    return json.loads(yt_player_config)
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\json\__init__.py", line 357, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\json\decoder.py", line 337, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\json\decoder.py", line 353, in raw_decode
    obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx)
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Unterminated string starting at: line 1 column 28 (char 27)

Process finished with exit code 1

The code appears to work for other videos as intended:

from pytube import YouTube

yt = YouTube("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lAe1cqCOXo&t")
print(yt.title)

YouTube Rewind 2019: For the Record | #YouTubeRewind

Process finished with exit code 0

I don’t think I have the programming experience to decipher the error traceback. Is anyone else able to replicate this issue?

[tfdahlin]

hi @chandeepadissanayake this is because that branch has been merged into the main repo. The command you want to use now is pip install git+https://github.com/nficano/pytube. That previous command was to install an experimental branch

[snowblinkrx]

updated, and yes, that worked. thanks!