Error: Document is empty

[khiemnd5]

I had problem when run code: Link example youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMAVhkFEeRw

Do you have any idea? Thank you so much!

[spiralofhope]

It works for me using the latest version from git (ec268fd077c438093c4be1d8b000b90dde03f2ab). I don't think you are using the same version, because I don't see the timer. Update your copy from git and see if that helps.

./downloader.py --youtubeid sMAVhkFEeRw --output demo.json

Downloading Youtube comments for video: sMAVhkFEeRw
Downloaded 15 comment(s)
[1.39 seconds] Done!

(If you need to, I can provide the comments for any videos you need until you can solve your problem.)

[khiemnd5]

@spiralofhope thank you reply me. I was checked. In python version 3.7 not working. Version 2.7 worked.

python3 downloader.py --youtubeid sMAVhkFEeRw --output demo.json Downloading Youtube comments for video: sMAVhkFEeRw Error: Document is empty

python downloader.py --youtubeid sMAVhkFEeRw --output demo.json Downloading Youtube comments for video: sMAVhkFEeRw Downloaded 15 comment(s) [1.69 seconds] Done!

I don't know why this problem. I was debugged the problem exception in this function.

def extract_reply_cids(html):
    tree = lxml.html.fromstring(html)
    sel = CSSSelector('.comment-replies-header > .load-comments')
    return [i.get('data-cid') for i in sel(tree)] 

I provided more info.

[d0tN3t]

@khiemnd5 I'm running 3.7 and I was able to download it as well.

Maybe it has to do with your lxml package if you debugged it to that code block you showed. My lxml version is 4.2.5. But I can't see that being the reason as I've used different ones in the past. If you can get it to work with 2.7 then my guess is that your python 3 environments may be conflicting for some reason. Possibly other packages. You could try setting up a new environment with all the packages needed to run the script.

[d0tN3t]

@egbertbouman I'm not sure if this is ready to be closed. I haven't received any feedback nor am I able to reproduce the error the user is receiving. 👍

[egbertbouman]

@d0tN3t I've just tried it using Python 2.7/3.7/3.8, but couldn't reproduce it either. So, I'll close this issue for now. If we get more similar reports, I'll take another, closer look.