pafy.util.GdataError: Youtube Error 403: Access Not Configured.

[ritiek]

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Description

It seems like YouTube has lately messed with API keys and newer video uploads no longer download properly and instead raise an error. See log.

Log

$ spotdl -s "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=367XrMBcb54"

$ spotdl -s "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=367XrMBcb54"
INFO: Track not found on Spotify, falling back on YouTube metadata
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/ritiek/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pafy/util.py", line 34, in call_gdata
    data = g.opener.open(url).read().decode('utf-8')
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 532, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 642, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 570, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 504, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 650, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/ritiek/.local/bin/spotdl", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/home/ritiek/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/spotdl/spotdl.py", line 68, in main
    match_args()
  File "/home/ritiek/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/spotdl/spotdl.py", line 27, in match_args
    track_dl = downloader.Downloader(raw_song=track)
  File "/home/ritiek/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/spotdl/downloader.py", line 98, in __init__
    self.content, self.meta_tags = youtube_tools.match_video_and_metadata(raw_song)
  File "/home/ritiek/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/spotdl/youtube_tools.py", line 77, in match_video_and_metadata
    meta_tags = fallback_metadata(meta_tags)
  File "/home/ritiek/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/spotdl/youtube_tools.py", line 68, in fallback_metadata
    meta_tags = generate_metadata(content)
  File "/home/ritiek/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/spotdl/youtube_tools.py", line 112, in generate_metadata
    "year": content.published.split("-")[0],
  File "/home/ritiek/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pafy/backend_shared.py", line 308, in published
    self._fetch_gdata()
  File "/home/ritiek/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pafy/backend_youtube_dl.py", line 68, in _fetch_gdata
    item = self._get_video_gdata(self.videoid)['items'][0]
  File "/home/ritiek/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pafy/backend_shared.py", line 125, in _get_video_gdata
    gdata = call_gdata('videos', query)
  File "/home/ritiek/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pafy/util.py", line 42, in call_gdata
    raise GdataError(errmsg)
pafy.util.GdataError: Youtube Error 403: Access Not Configured. YouTube Data API has not been used in project 54427295932 before or it is disabled. Enable it by visiting
https://console.developers.google.com/apis/api/youtube.googleapis.com/overview?project=54427295932 then retry. If you enabled this API recently, wait a few minutes for the action to propagate to our systems and retry.

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Relevant issues:

• default api key disabled mps-youtube/yewtube#1063
• Youtube error 403: Access Not Configured. YouTube Data API mps-youtube/pafy#255
• Default API key is disabled trizen/youtube-viewer#308

[ritiek]

One way to fix this would be to add your own YouTube API key in config.yml.

[ritiek]

One way to fix this would be to add your own YouTube API key in config.yml.

Otherwise #672 (with #674 as follow-up) will skip API specific metadata.