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Pytube length sometimes missing causes crash

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On certain urls trying to get the length of a youtube video crashes the program due to a key error in the object itself.

Ex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VR-6AS0-l4

Traceback (most recent call last):
    if end_time >= yt.length:
  File "/opt/python/run/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pytube/__main__.py", line 286, in length
    return self.player_config_args['length_seconds']
KeyError: 'length_seconds'

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Created 4 years ago
Reactions:3
Comments:6 (1 by maintainers)

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MarcBressoncommented, Aug 28, 2019

hey i figured out what is happening ! Go to line 286 and change the only line with return ( self.player_config_args .get('player_response', {}) .get('videoDetails', {}) .get('lengthSeconds') ) It works really well for me 😉

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ricardodeazambujacommented, Sep 21, 2019

@marcounetB nailed it! However, if you don’t want to edit the source code… considering you have your object like current_video = YouTube(video_url), you just need to use:

current_video.player_config_args.get('player_response').get('videoDetails').get('lengthSeconds') or current_video.player_config_args['player_response']['videoDetails']['lengthSeconds']

Happy downloading 😃