Pytube Error: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Client'

Question

I've been trying to use the Pytube module and every time I use its Client attribute it keeps coming up with the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#3>", line 1, in <module>
    client = pytube.Client('my-app-identifier')
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Client'

Answer 1

First of all, the latest version of pytube (which gets installed with pip install pytube is today the version 6.1.5; so you should probably be looking at that version's PyPI page instead. The brief documentation on the PyPI page says nothing about the Client class; instead the main API class is YouTube, as shown in this excerpt:

from pytube import YouTube
yt = YouTube("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik-RsDGPI5Y")

# Once set, you can see all the codec and quality options YouTube has made
# available for the perticular video by printing videos.

pprint(yt.get_videos())

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The "PyTube" documentation at Read the Docs seems to be for a completely unrelated project. As far as I can see, this project is not available on PyPI.

Answer 2

• The “PyTube documentation” you are looking at is for the PyTube, a library written by Noah Silas and Kai Powell, available on GitHub. The library hasn’t been updated in 5 years, and with YouTube’s many changes, it’s likely that it will no longer work.

• The pytube library available from PyPI is a completely different library written by Nick Ficano and does not really come with a lot of documentation. Instead, the only manual is on the GitHub project page.