KeyError 'like_count'

[colinosoft]

I'm get information from several videos with a loop and in some I get this error and I don't know how to fix it:

KeyError
'like_count'

[colinosoft]

Well I am not an expert in python but I realized that the error occurs when trying to get likes or dislikes in video that do not have therefore the json does not bring that key.

Change in the backend_youtube_dl.py file in line 53, the assignment of keys for a get ('') and it works perfectly in the cases that does not have likes returns empty and at least does not indicate a fatal error in execution.

[mts7]

#288 fixes it.

[tirth-2001]

Any solution to this yet?

The reason for this error might be youtube API has restructured its response. But that is not incorporated in the youtube_dl package. Whosoever is @author of PAFY package. Please look into this.

[vmc-7645]

Kind of a "band aid" solution but simply go to backend_youtube_dl.py under pafy and comment out lines 53 and 54. ie;

from

self._likes = self._ydl_info['like_count']
self._dislikes = self._ydl_info['dislike_count']

to

# self._likes = self._ydl_info['like_count']
# self._dislikes = self._ydl_info['dislike_count']

hopefully an actual fix will come soon enough.