I’m having trouble retrieving the YouTube video automatically. Here’s the code. The problem is the last part. download = urllib.request.urlopen(download_url).read()
# YouTube video download script # 10n1z3d[at]w[dot]cn import urllib.request import sys print("n--------------------------") print (" YouTube Video Downloader") print ("--------------------------n") try: video_url = sys.argv[1] except: video_url = input('[+] Enter video URL: ') print("[+] Connecting...") try: if(video_url.endswith('&feature=related')): video_id = video_url.split('www.youtube.com/watch?v=')[1].split('&feature=related')[0] elif(video_url.endswith('&feature=dir')): video_id = video_url.split('www.youtube.com/watch?v=')[1].split('&feature=dir')[0] elif(video_url.endswith('&feature=fvst')): video_id = video_url.split('www.youtube.com/watch?v=')[1].split('&feature=fvst')[0] elif(video_url.endswith('&feature=channel_page')): video_id = video_url.split('www.youtube.com/watch?v=')[1].split('&feature=channel_page')[0] else: video_id = video_url.split('www.youtube.com/watch?v=')[1] except: print("[-] Invalid URL.") exit(1) print("[+] Parsing token...") try: url = str(urllib.request.urlopen('http://www.youtube.com/get_video_info?&video_id=' + video_id).read()) token_value = url.split('video_id=' + video_id + '&token=')[1].split('&thumbnail_url')[0] download_url = "http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=" + video_id + "&t=" + token_value + "&fmt=18" except: url = str(urllib.request.urlopen('www.youtube.com/watch?v=' + video_id)) exit(1) v_url = str(urllib.request.urlopen('http://' + video_url).read()) video_title = v_url.split('"rv.2.title": "')[1].split('", "rv.4.rating"')[0] if '"' in video_title: video_title = video_title.replace('"', '"') elif '&' in video_title: video_title = video_title.replace('&', '&') print("[+] Downloading " + '"' + video_title + '"...') try: print(download_url) file = open(video_title + '.mp4', 'wb') download = urllib.request.urlopen(download_url).read() print(download) for line in download: file.write(line) file.close() except: print("[-] Error downloading. Quitting.") exit(1) print("n[+] Done. The video is saved to the current working directory(cwd).n")
There’s an error message (thanks Wooble):
Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:/Python31/MyLib/DrawingBoard/youtube_download-.py", line 52, in <module> download = urllib.request.urlopen(download_url).read() File "C:Python31liburllibrequest.py", line 119, in urlopen return _opener.open(url, data, timeout) File "C:Python31liburllibrequest.py", line 353, in open response = meth(req, response) File "C:Python31liburllibrequest.py", line 465, in http_response 'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs) File "C:Python31liburllibrequest.py", line 385, in error result = self._call_chain(*args) File "C:Python31liburllibrequest.py", line 325, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File "C:Python31liburllibrequest.py", line 560, in http_error_302 return self.parent.open(new, timeout=req.timeout) File "C:Python31liburllibrequest.py", line 353, in open response = meth(req, response) File "C:Python31liburllibrequest.py", line 465, in http_response 'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs) File "C:Python31liburllibrequest.py", line 391, in error return self._call_chain(*args) File "C:Python31liburllibrequest.py", line 325, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File "C:Python31liburllibrequest.py", line 473, in http_error_default raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp) urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
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Answer
The code on the original question relies on several assumptions about the content of YouTube pages and URLs (expressed in constructs such as “url.split(‘something=’)[1]”) which may not always be true. I tested it and it might depend even on which related videos show on the page. You might have tripped on any of those specificities.
Here’s a cleaner version, which uses urllib to parse URLs and query strings, and which successfully downloads a video. I’ve removed some of the try/except which didn’t do much but exit, for clarity. Incidentally, it deals with Unicode video titles by removing non-ASCII characters from the filename to which the video is saved. It also takes any numbers of YouTube URLs and downloads them all. Finally, it masks its user-agent as Chrome for Mac (which is what I currently use).
#!/usr/bin/env python3 import sys import urllib.request from urllib.request import urlopen, FancyURLopener from urllib.parse import urlparse, parse_qs, unquote class UndercoverURLopener(FancyURLopener): version = "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.342.9 Safari/533.2" urllib.request._urlopener = UndercoverURLopener() def youtube_download(video_url): video_id = parse_qs(urlparse(video_url).query)['v'][0] url_data = urlopen('http://www.youtube.com/get_video_info?&video_id=' + video_id).read() url_info = parse_qs(unquote(url_data.decode('utf-8'))) token_value = url_info['token'][0] download_url = "http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id={0}&t={1}&fmt=18".format( video_id, token_value) video_title = url_info['title'][0] if 'title' in url_info else '' # Unicode filenames are more trouble than they're worth filename = video_title.encode('ascii', 'ignore').decode('ascii').replace("/", "-") + '.mp4' print("t Downloading '{}' to '{}'...".format(video_title, filename)) try: download = urlopen(download_url).read() f = open(filename, 'wb') f.write(download) f.close() except Exception as e: print("t Download failed! {}".format(str(e))) print("t Skipping...") else: print("t Done.") def main(): print("n--------------------------") print (" YouTube Video Downloader") print ("--------------------------n") try: video_urls = sys.argv[1:] except: video_urls = input('Enter (space-separated) video URLs: ') for u in video_urls: youtube_download(u) print("n Done.") if __name__ == '__main__': main()