Comment downloads not working anymore NO JSON object

egbertbouman / youtube-comment-downloader

Simple script for downloading Youtube comments without using the Youtube API

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Comment downloads not working anymore NO JSON object #50

Closed ericj112 closed 4 years ago

ericj112 commented 4 years ago

Hi, the comments downloading is not working anymore, it says Downloading Youtube comments for video: t2jam1x5ki4 Error: No JSON object could be decoded Thanks

egbertbouman commented 4 years ago

The script seems to be working fine for me. Perhaps Youtube is requesting a captcha check?

To find out, maybe you could add a print statement just before the HTML response is JSON decoded. You can do this by adding print(response.text) just before: https://github.com/egbertbouman/youtube-comment-downloader/blob/c47cf9988d1ed771e635e25cce3036a5df900510/downloader.py#L33

spiralofhope commented 4 years ago

I tested and was able to download the comments. @ericj112 Let me know if you need me to provide it.

ericj112 commented 4 years ago

It turned out to be it was using ipv6 and youtube was giving me an error 429 too many requests when i tried to wget the page, turning ipv6 off fixed this part of the problem. Thanks for the help all.