Set Accept-Language header to English

[Theta-Dev]

Some of the data returned by the internal YouTube API is localized, e.g. the upload date string. If no Accept-Language header is present, YouTube will assume the language via the users's IP.

This leads to inconsistent output data and possible parsing errors if scrapetube is used in a non-English-speaking country.

That's why I would suggest setting the Accept-Language header to en. I am from Germany and can confirm that YouTube ouputs English date strings with that setting.

session = requests.Session()
session.headers[
    "User-Agent"
] = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.101
Safari/537.36"
session.headers["Accept-Language"] = "en"

[VladislavSmolyanoy]

Weird. When I edit the scrapetube.py file, nothing changes. What are the steps that you took in order to change the file?

[themegaxandy]

I am having exactly the same problem. And there should be a way to insert the location directly into the "get_channel" and "get_search" commands. That would make it much easier.

[dermasmid]

fixed