This request was detected as a bot. Use `use_po_token=True` to view

[abdwap]

from pytubefix import YouTube
from pytubefix.cli import on_progress

url = "https://www.youtube.com/embed/h7iDDiTBRis"

yt = YouTube(url, use_po_token=True)

ys = yt.streams.get_highest_resolution()
ys.download()

File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pytubefix/main.py", line 344, in check_availability
raise exceptions.BotDetection(video_id=self.video_id)
pytubefix.exceptions.BotDetection: h7iDDiTBRis This request was detected as a bot. Use use_po_token=True to view

[AliGhadamyari]

I have the same issue!
is there any fix for it?!

[felipeucelli]

This error indicates that YouTube blocked your request, it occurs more frequently in cloud environments.

Delete the token cache and try using another PoToken and let us know the result. see instructions here #209.

[NannoSilver]

This error indicates that YouTube blocked your request, it occurs more frequently in cloud environments.

Delete the token cache and try using another PoToken and let us know the result. see instructions here #209.

@felipeucelli

There are many people coming and opening this exactly same issue every few days.

My suggestion is to expand the output of this exception to the user.
In addition to This request was detected as a bot. Use use_po_token=True to view can be also added something like See more details at https://github.com/JuanBindez/pytubefix/pull/209

[felipeucelli]

@NannoSilver Great idea, I'll add this in the next PR.

[Kief5555]

This error indicates that YouTube blocked your request, it occurs more frequently in cloud environments.

Delete the token cache and try using another PoToken and let us know the result. see instructions here #209.

Can you please let me know where to find the token cache so I can clear it?

[abdwap]

The token cache has been deleted
But the problem persists

[abdwap]

It works when using a proxy
But it does not work on the server ip
I don't know why yet

from pytubefix import YouTube
from pytubefix.cli import on_progress
url = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLb8gn_4uLI"
proxies = {
"https": 344444:444"
}

save_dir = "/home/m/public_html/v"
yt = YouTube(
url,
proxies=proxies,use_po_token=True, allow_oauth_cache=True, token_file="/home/m/public_html/1.json",
on_progress_callback=on_progress
)
ys = yt.streams.get_highest_resolution()
ys.download(output_path=save_dir)

[cleong110]

FYI, to get a po_token you can do like thus: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/190BC9tEc0wTtCsfSbWHY-lT6amjSwFyG#scrollTo=CHFMbX0n_KpB

Then I believe when you use a YouTube object (not when you first create it!) then it will prompt you.

@felipeucelli how would it be possible to set the po_token programmatically instead of prompting the user? I had to create a YouTube object, then download a video (Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up), and then subsequent connections/downloads then did not prompt me. But is there a way to pass in the info when creating it, or perhaps trigger the prompt manually without doing a download?

[cleong110]

What I can confirm is that after generating a po_token with that colab notebook above, and getting pytubefix to cache it, I was then able to successfully download additional videos

[felipeucelli]

FYI, to get a po_token you can do like thus: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/190BC9tEc0wTtCsfSbWHY-lT6amjSwFyG#scrollTo=CHFMbX0n_KpB

Hello, would you mind sharing your colab notebook publicly, this link needs access authorization.

Then I believe when you use a YouTube object (not when you first create it!) then it will prompt you.

@felipeucelli how would it be possible to set the po_token programmatically instead of prompting the user? I had to create a YouTube object, then download a video (Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up), and then subsequent connections/downloads then did not prompt me. But is there a way to pass in the info when creating it, or perhaps trigger the prompt manually without doing a download?

I'm working on improving user notices about PoToken.

PoToken generation is complex. This project seems to have managed to interact directly with the botguard API, I'm trying to implement it in python.

[cleong110]

@felipeucelli Ah, that's embarassing. Shared. tldr I just clone the token generator repo and run the example script with node

[cleong110]

Here's the whole thing, essentially:

npm install youtube-po-token-generator
git clone https://github.com/YunzheZJU/youtube-po-token-generator.git
node /content/youtube-po-token-generator/examples/one-shot.js