Unable to download multiple videos from youtube in python - youtube

Question

I am working on a video analysis project which requires to download videos from youtube and upload them on google cloud storage. I could not figure out a way to directly upload them to gcs thus, I tried to download them on local machine and then upload them to gcs.
I went through multiple articles on stackoverflow regarding the same and with the help of those I was able to come up with the following script.
I went through multiple articles on stackoverflow regarding the same such as
python: get all youtube video urls of a channel and
Download YouTube video using Python to a certain directory
and with the help of those I was able to come up with the following script.
import urllib.request
import json
from pytube import YouTube
import pickle
def get_all_video_in_channel(channel_id):
api_key = 'AIzaSyCK9eQlD1ptx0SKMsmL0srmL2ua9_EuwSs'
base_video_url = 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v='
base_search_url = 'https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?'
first_url = base_search_url+'key={}&channelId={}&part=snippet,id&order=date&maxResults=25'.format(api_key, channel_id)
video_links = []
url = first_url
while True:
inp = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
resp = json.load(inp)
for i in resp['items']:
if i['id']['kind'] == "youtube#video":
video_links.append(base_video_url + i['id']['videoId'])
try:
next_page_token = resp['nextPageToken']
url = first_url + '&pageToken={}'.format(next_page_token)
except:
break
return video_links
#Load the file containing all the youtube video url
load_url = get_all_video_in_channel(channel_id)
#Access all the youtube url in the list and store them on local machine. Need to figure out if there is a way to directly upload them to gcs
for i in range(0,len(load_url)):
YouTube('load_url[i]').streams.first().download('C:/Users/Tushar/Documents/Serato_Video_Intelligence/youtube_videos')
It works only for the first two video urls and then fails with the below error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 2, in <module>
File "C:\Python37\lib\site-packages\pytube\streams.py", line 217, in download
bytes_remaining = self.filesize
File "C:\Python37\lib\site-packages\pytube\streams.py", line 164, in filesize
headers = request.get(self.url, headers=True)
File "C:\Python37\lib\site-packages\pytube\request.py", line 21, in get
response = urlopen(url)
File "C:\Python37\lib\urllib\request.py", line 222, in urlopen
return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
File "C:\Python37\lib\urllib\request.py", line 531, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "C:\Python37\lib\urllib\request.py", line 641, in http_response
'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
File "C:\Python37\lib\urllib\request.py", line 569, in error
return self._call_chain(*args)
File "C:\Python37\lib\urllib\request.py", line 503, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "C:\Python37\lib\urllib\request.py", line 649, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
I was hoping if someone can please help me understand what is going wrong here and if could help me to resolve this issue. I desperately need this and have been unable to resolve the issue for some time.
Thanks a lot in advance !!
P.S. If possible, is there a way to directly upload them to gcs.

Answer 1

Seems like you could fall in a conflict with YouTube's the terms of service, I suggest to you check this document and put attention on the section number 5 letter B. [1]
[1]https://www.youtube.com/static?gl=US&template=terms