Possible new issue with autogenerated channel upload playlists

Description When using an autogenerated Youtube channel playlist (go to channel, videos tab, click or copy the ‘Play all’ button next to ‘Uploads’ to get the URL), a 410 error is received. This behavior began sometime after Feb 18th. Normal playlists behave as expected.

Repro

def DownloadChannel(channel_link):
    list_videos = Playlist(channel_link).video_urls
    total_videos = len(list_videos)
    print(f'{total_videos} Videos Found')


DownloadChannel(channel_link="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUAuUUnT6oDeKwE6v1NGQxug&playnext=1&index=1")  # TED channel uploads playlist

Expected behavior Receive the data from the playlist.

Output

C:\Python38\python.exe D:/dsl_addons/personal_dev/Python/misc/youtube_presentation/v2.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:/dsl_addons/personal_dev/Python/misc/youtube_presentation/v2.py", line 124, in <module>
    DownloadChannel(channel_link="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUAuUUnT6oDeKwE6v1NGQxug&playnext=1&index=1")
  File "D:/dsl_addons/personal_dev/Python/misc/youtube_presentation/v2.py", line 11, in DownloadChannel
    list_videos = Playlist(pure_link).video_urls
  File "C:\Python38\lib\site-packages\pytube\contrib\playlist.py", line 212, in video_urls
    for page in list(self._paginate())
  File "C:\Python38\lib\site-packages\pytube\contrib\playlist.py", line 78, in _paginate
    req = request.get(load_more_url, extra_headers=headers)
  File "C:\Python38\lib\site-packages\pytube\request.py", line 42, in get
    return _execute_request(url, headers=extra_headers).read().decode("utf-8")
  File "C:\Python38\lib\site-packages\pytube\request.py", line 26, in _execute_request
    return urlopen(request)  # nosec
  File "C:\Python38\lib\urllib\request.py", line 222, in urlopen
    return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
  File "C:\Python38\lib\urllib\request.py", line 531, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "C:\Python38\lib\urllib\request.py", line 640, in http_response
    response = self.parent.error(
  File "C:\Python38\lib\urllib\request.py", line 569, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "C:\Python38\lib\urllib\request.py", line 502, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "C:\Python38\lib\urllib\request.py", line 649, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 410: Gone

Process finished with exit code 1

System information

• Python version: 3.8.2
• Pytube version: 10.4.1

[dslyecxi]

Updating fixed it. I’d mistakenly thought I was up to date, but now I see what I missed. Thanks for your help!

[tfdahlin]

@chanstev I think your python installation is using the wrong version of pytube on your system, which may be an issue with your PATH variable, or it could be due to conflicting python installations.

If you note in the error message you received, it says that line 212 should be for page in list(self._paginate()). However, if you look at line 212 in the pytube/contrib/playlist.py file for v10.7.2, this does not match.

Sometimes this kind of thing happens when you previously installed an older version of python, then later install a new version, where pip will install things incorrectly, or python will try to import from the wrong directory.

To try and fix this, I would first try to fully uninstall pytube and reinstall it. Sometimes people have alternative versions of pytube, such as pytube3 or pytubex, so I usually recommend running the following command to have the best chance of success: python -m pip uninstall pytube pytube3 pytubex. Then, you can reinstall with python -m pip install pytube.

If that doesn’t work, you might try checking your path variables to see if they’re configured correctly to access the correct folders. It looks like your path variables are accessing a 3.8 installation, but maybe you’ve upgraded to 3.9 at some point (or downgraded to 3.7?), which would indicate that pip installations are going to the wrong spot, or python is accessings from the wrong spot.