List Index out of range

brentvollebregt / spotify-playlist-downloader

Downloads Spotify playlists to mp3 tagged and given album art 🎧🎼

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List Index out of range #2

Open simonubn opened 4 years ago

simonubn commented 4 years ago

Hey, I tried to use your script but whenever I try to download a playlist I get an error for every track. Thats the output:

Getting... + url Some error happened somewhere??? list index out of range Ack

I tried different playlists but its the same all the time. I guess there's maybe a problem at line 138 "search_page = soup.find_all('ol', 'item-section')[0]" because after this, the script directly jumps to the last exception which prints the result mentioned above.

Greetings

alex-carlson commented 4 years ago

I'm trying to get past this as well. It doesn't seem like search_page gets used at all, so I just removed it. It's still failing at the next line though, I'm assuming YT changed their HTML structure and the find_all selections need to be updated.

brentvollebregt commented 4 years ago

Looks like YouTube has changed the way it renders its pages and skeletons are used as placeholders during loaded - this means the content is no longer there. There are a couple of options to solve this:

Load the page, let the JavaScript run and then parse the videos out (slow)
Use the YouTube Data API. This will require an extra token.

Also you're right, search_page = soup.find_all('ol', 'item-section')[0] isn't used at all.

For the meantime, checkout youtube-dl; it pretty much does what this tool does/did.