urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 410: Gone

[eliamazzon]

Describe the bug
Trying to download videos with both the CLI interface and pytube module fails with the error: urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 410: Gone

To Reproduce
Execute: $ pytube https://youtube.com/watch?v=2lAe1cqCOXo

Expected behavior
Usually, it just works and downloads the video.

Output
Loading video... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/aile_/.local/bin/pytube", line 33, in <module> sys.exit(load_entry_point('pytube==12.0.0', 'console_scripts', 'pytube')()) File "/home/aile_/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pytube/cli.py", line 48, in main youtube = YouTube(args.url) File "/home/aile_/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pytube/__main__.py", line 91, in __init__ self.prefetch() File "/home/aile_/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pytube/__main__.py", line 181, in prefetch self.vid_info_raw = request.get(self.vid_info_url) File "/home/aile_/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pytube/request.py", line 36, in get return _execute_request(url).read().decode("utf-8") File "/home/aile_/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pytube/request.py", line 24, in _execute_request return urlopen(request) # nosec File "/usr/lib/python3.10/urllib/request.py", line 216, in urlopen return opener.open(url, data, timeout) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/urllib/request.py", line 525, in open response = meth(req, response) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/urllib/request.py", line 634, in http_response response = self.parent.error( File "/usr/lib/python3.10/urllib/request.py", line 557, in error result = self._call_chain(*args) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/urllib/request.py", line 496, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/urllib/request.py", line 749, in http_error_302 return self.parent.open(new, timeout=req.timeout) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/urllib/request.py", line 525, in open response = meth(req, response) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/urllib/request.py", line 634, in http_response response = self.parent.error( File "/usr/lib/python3.10/urllib/request.py", line 563, in error return self._call_chain(*args) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/urllib/request.py", line 496, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/urllib/request.py", line 643, in http_error_default raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp) urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 410: Gone

System information
Please provide the following information:

• Python version Python 3.10.4
• Pytube version 9.6.4
• Command used to install pytube python -m pip install git+https://github.com/pytube/pytube

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[sigmund505]

Same problem with Pytube3 9.6.4 on both Windows 10/Python 3.7.4 and Windows 11/Python 3.10 within the last three days. Command used to install Pytube3: pip install pytube3

[aperumpilly]

any other solution rather than installing python -m pip install git+https://github.com/pytube/pytube

[flyinggoatman]

I'm having this issue as well, only with video links though.

[glappa]

this error is still here, when can we expect a fix?