"YouTube returned no videos for the search query" for most tracks

Description

Most tracks fail with “YouTube returned no videos for the search query”. For example:

$ spotdl -s https://open.spotify.com/track/3ARO9xyyjoqPX2Xzj5Tgrb -ll=debug

when the track is clearly available in the search results URL (as in the debug log posted below).

Log

$ spotdl -s https://open.spotify.com/track/3ARO9xyyjoqPX2Xzj5Tgrb -ll=debug

DEBUG:spotdl.metadata.providers.youtube:127:
Retrying since YouTube returned invalid response for search results. Retries left: 4.

DEBUG:spotdl.metadata.providers.youtube:122:
Fetching YouTube results for "Loving Caliber - You Set My World on Fire (Rogan Gold Remix) lyrics" at "https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=EgIQAQ%253D%253D&q=Loving%20Caliber%20-%20You%20Set%20My%20World%20on%20Fire%20%28Rogan%20Gold%20Remix%29%20lyrics".

DEBUG:spotdl.metadata.providers.youtube:127:
Retrying since YouTube returned invalid response for search results. Retries left: 3.

DEBUG:spotdl.metadata.providers.youtube:122:
Fetching YouTube results for "Loving Caliber - You Set My World on Fire (Rogan Gold Remix) lyrics" at "https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=EgIQAQ%253D%253D&q=Loving%20Caliber%20-%20You%20Set%20My%20World%20on%20Fire%20%28Rogan%20Gold%20Remix%29%20lyrics".

DEBUG:spotdl.metadata.providers.youtube:127:
Retrying since YouTube returned invalid response for search results. Retries left: 2.

DEBUG:spotdl.metadata.providers.youtube:122:
Fetching YouTube results for "Loving Caliber - You Set My World on Fire (Rogan Gold Remix) lyrics" at "https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=EgIQAQ%253D%253D&q=Loving%20Caliber%20-%20You%20Set%20My%20World%20on%20Fire%20%28Rogan%20Gold%20Remix%29%20lyrics".

DEBUG:spotdl.metadata.providers.youtube:127:
Retrying since YouTube returned invalid response for search results. Retries left: 1.

DEBUG:spotdl.metadata.providers.youtube:122:
Fetching YouTube results for "Loving Caliber - You Set My World on Fire (Rogan Gold Remix) lyrics" at "https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=EgIQAQ%253D%253D&q=Loving%20Caliber%20-%20You%20Set%20My%20World%20on%20Fire%20%28Rogan%20Gold%20Remix%29%20lyrics".

ERROR:spotdl.command_line.core:223:
Y >>  spotdl -s https://open.spotify.com/track/3ARO9xyyjoqPX2Xzj5Tgrb -ll=debug                                                                                                                                                      02:55:05 
DEBUG:spotdl.authorize.services.spotify:37:
Setting master Spotify credentials.

DEBUG:spotdl.command_line.core:52:
Received arguments:
{'manual': False, 'no_metadata': False, 'no_encode': False, 'overwrite': 'prompt', 'quality': 'best', 'input_ext': 'automatic', 'output_ext': 'mp3', 'write_to': None, 'trim_silence': False, 'search_format': '{artist} - {track-name} lyrics', 'dry_run': False, 'no_spaces': False, 'output_file': '{artist} - {track-name}.{output-ext}', 'skip_file': None, 'write_successful_file': None, 'spotify_client_id': '4fe3fecfe5334023a1472516cc99d805', 'spotify_client_secret': '0f02b7c483c04257984695007a4a8d5c', 'log_level': 'DEBUG', 'song': ['https://open.spotify.com/track/3ARO9xyyjoqPX2Xzj5Tgrb'], 'list': None, 'playlist': None, 'album': None, 'all_albums': None, 'username': None, 'write_m3u': False, 'processor': 'synchronous', 'remove_config': False}

DEBUG:spotdl.authorize.services.spotify:32:
Reading cached master Spotify credentials.

INFO:spotdl.command_line.core:62:
Downloading "https://open.spotify.com/track/3ARO9xyyjoqPX2Xzj5Tgrb"

DEBUG:spotdl.authorize.services.spotify:32:
Reading cached master Spotify credentials.

DEBUG:spotdl.metadata_search:182:
Extracting YouTube and Spotify metadata for input Spotify URI.

DEBUG:spotdl.metadata_search:245:
Extracting Spotify metadata for input Spotify URI.

DEBUG:spotdl.metadata.providers.spotify:25:
Fetching Spotify metadata for "https://open.spotify.com/track/3ARO9xyyjoqPX2Xzj5Tgrb".

DEBUG:spotdl.metadata.providers.youtube:122:
Fetching YouTube results for "Loving Caliber - You Set My World on Fire (Rogan Gold Remix) lyrics" at "https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=EgIQAQ%253D%253D&q=Loving%20Caliber%20-%20You%20Set%20My%20World%20on%20Fire%20%28Rogan%20Gold%20Remix%29%20lyrics".

DEBUG:spotdl.metadata.providers.youtube:127:
Retrying since YouTube returned invalid response for search results. Retries left: 5.

DEBUG:spotdl.metadata.providers.youtube:122:
Fetching YouTube results for "Loving Caliber - You Set My World on Fire (Rogan Gold Remix) lyrics" at "https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=EgIQAQ%253D%253D&q=Loving%20Caliber%20-%20You%20Set%20My%20World%20on%20Fire%20%28Rogan%20Gold%20Remix%29%20lyrics".

DEBUG:spotdl.metadata.providers.youtube:127:
Retrying since YouTube returned invalid response for search results. Retries left: 4.

DEBUG:spotdl.metadata.providers.youtube:122:
Fetching YouTube results for "Loving Caliber - You Set My World on Fire (Rogan Gold Remix) lyrics" at "https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=EgIQAQ%253D%253D&q=Loving%20Caliber%20-%20You%20Set%20My%20World%20on%20Fire%20%28Rogan%20Gold%20Remix%29%20lyrics".

DEBUG:spotdl.metadata.providers.youtube:127:
Retrying since YouTube returned invalid response for search results. Retries left: 3.

DEBUG:spotdl.metadata.providers.youtube:122:
Fetching YouTube results for "Loving Caliber - You Set My World on Fire (Rogan Gold Remix) lyrics" at "https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=EgIQAQ%253D%253D&q=Loving%20Caliber%20-%20You%20Set%20My%20World%20on%20Fire%20%28Rogan%20Gold%20Remix%29%20lyrics".

DEBUG:spotdl.metadata.providers.youtube:127:
Retrying since YouTube returned invalid response for search results. Retries left: 2.

DEBUG:spotdl.metadata.providers.youtube:122:
Fetching YouTube results for "Loving Caliber - You Set My World on Fire (Rogan Gold Remix) lyrics" at "https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=EgIQAQ%253D%253D&q=Loving%20Caliber%20-%20You%20Set%20My%20World%20on%20Fire%20%28Rogan%20Gold%20Remix%29%20lyrics".

DEBUG:spotdl.metadata.providers.youtube:127:
Retrying since YouTube returned invalid response for search results. Retries left: 1.

DEBUG:spotdl.metadata.providers.youtube:122:
Fetching YouTube results for "Loving Caliber - You Set My World on Fire (Rogan Gold Remix) lyrics" at "https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=EgIQAQ%253D%253D&q=Loving%20Caliber%20-%20You%20Set%20My%20World%20on%20Fire%20%28Rogan%20Gold%20Remix%29%20lyrics".

ERROR:spotdl.command_line.core:223:
YouTube returned no videos for the search query "Loving Caliber - You Set My World on Fire (Rogan Gold Remix) lyrics".

[ritiek]

@valedd You can hack the search query option in your config.yml if you don’t want “lyrics” to automatically get appended.

On Sat, 11 Jul, 2020, 5:04 PM valedd, [e-mail] wrote:

Hello i received the same error today 07/11/2020

"ERROR: YouTube returned no videos for the search query “Robbie Williams - Let Me Entertain You lyrics”

i think the developer of spotify DB start to append the word “lyrics” to every song and when the script try to search the song youtube can’t match the result and we receive this kind of error.

Thanks in advance for some answer and the script too

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[s1as3r]

Seems like You’re using spotdl v2. V2 is no longer in active development. Please use spotdl V3 and if the issue still persists, open a new Issue.