List Index out of range

[simonubn]

Hey, I tried to use your script but whenever I try to download a playlist I get an error for every track.
Thats the output:

Getting... + url
Some error happened somewhere???
list index out of range
Ack

I tried different playlists but its the same all the time.
I guess there's maybe a problem at line 138 "search_page = soup.find_all('ol', 'item-section')[0]" because after this, the script directly jumps to the last exception which prints the result mentioned above.

Greetings

[alex-carlson]

I'm trying to get past this as well. It doesn't seem like search_page gets used at all, so I just removed it. It's still failing at the next line though, I'm assuming YT changed their HTML structure and the find_all selections need to be updated.

[brentvollebregt]

Looks like YouTube has changed the way it renders its pages and skeletons are used as placeholders during loaded - this means the content is no longer there. There are a couple of options to solve this:

• Load the page, let the JavaScript run and then parse the videos out (slow)
• Use the YouTube Data API. This will require an extra token.

Also you're right, search_page = soup.find_all('ol', 'item-section')[0] isn't used at all.

For the meantime, checkout youtube-dl; it pretty much does what this tool does/did.