pafy.get_playlist() HTTP error

[tdrvlad]

This basic use case throws an error:

import pafy
url = 'https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm6MuHmcjo3qWG3RdQZoebtUgxvvqASvg'
playlist = pafy.get_playlist(url) 

Tried multiple playlists. The problem is not the URL. Can youtube block my IP after a certain number of requests?

Thank you in advance for the help.

[brihuega]

Same problem here

[elsayed-abdelhalim]

same problem

[noembryo]

Yeap, same here..

EDIT: Problem with get_playlist2 too
EDIT²: youtuube_dl retrieves playlist data almost normally (... except for the image thumbnails ...)
EDIT³: I now get a 403 that looks the same as #286

[noembryo]

After solving the "403" problem by providing my own API key I get the "404" error again.. 😞

[tdrvlad]

No-one found a work-around so far? Similar libraries?

[noembryo]

Nope..
The 'http://www.youtube.com/list_ajax?style=json&action_get_list=1&list=%s' undocumented API link that retrieved the json data for < 200 tracks, does not exists anymore... 😢
Only scraping the playlist's page might work now...

[tdrvlad]

@noembryo but urls for direct videos still work?

[noembryo]

Yes, video links are unaffected..

[Steeeephen]

No-one found a work-around so far? Similar libraries?

https://github.com/alexmercerind/youtube-search-python worked for me, seems to have a lot of the same functionality @tdrvlad

[estibencode]

In my opinion the best option would be to use pafy accompanied by the pytube library as follows

[estibencode]

`import pafy
from pytube import Playlist

p = Playlist('https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS1QulWo1RIaJECMeUT4LFwJ-ghgoSH6n')

for video in p[:3]:
video = pafy.new(video)
best = video.getbest(preftype="mp4")
best.download()
print(video)

`

[jemnimohamed007]

Same problem

[jemnimohamed007]

This solution gets just 3 videos from the playlist

[ipsavitsky]

get_playlist works only on v1 and v2 versions of Youtube API which are now deprecated. Use get_playlist2() to use Youtube v3 api

[tdrvlad]

Will update, thanks :)

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