[BUG] "the following content is not available on this app"

[partriv]

Describe the bug
When i access the URL of a stream to watch the video, it not longer works, I get this error in the video saying "The following content is not available on this app. Watch this content on the latest version of YouTube"

To Reproduce
Please provide the following information:

• Any youtube URL
• This is the code

yt_streams = yt.streams.filter(progressive=True, file_extension='mp4').order_by('resolution')
vid = yt_streams.desc().first()
url = vid.url

The URL will display a video with the above error.

Expected behavior
I can watch the video. It has worked for me for years, it just stopped. I tried refreshing my oauth tokens.

Output
No exceptions

System information
Please provide the following information:

• Python version: Python 3.10.6
• Pytube version: 15.0.0
• pip3 install pytube

[XavierLarrea]

the same issue trying to download with pytubefix. You download a video with error display

[Sigoloh]

This is not a bug. It's new youtube "feature".
More in this youtube post

[XavierLarrea]

Anyway pytube is not working ... any work around?

[liaolingfen4]

same issue i meet , how to solve it , anyone who has idea?thank you so much !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SHosseinR]

Same here. Possibly after so many downloads, I've got this problem. I don't know whether it is related to the number of downloads (which led to Youtube banning my IP address) or it was another problem.
Anyone same situation as me? Did it happen after many back to back downloads?

[XavierLarrea]

Same here. Possibly after so many downloads, I've got this problem. I don't know whether it is related to the number of downloads (which led to Youtube banning my IP address) or it was another problem. Anyone same situation as me? Did it happen after many back to back downloads?

Use pytbefix instead... it is working right now