YouTube Video Download Failure due to Bot Detection

[Techops-AB]

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Describe the bug
The script encounters an error message "VXHa83Lcmdk This request was detected as a bot. Use use_po_token=True to view. See more details at #209" when attempting to download a YouTube video.

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code that was used that resulted in the bug

from pytubefix import YouTube
import uuid, os, tempfile


youtubeObject = YouTube(link)#,use_po_token=True) ## Asking for token input on terminal
youtubeObject = youtubeObject.streams.get_highest_resolution()
uniqueFilename = str(uuid.uuid4()) + ".mp4"
with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tempDir:
    tempFilePath = os.path.join(tempDir, uniqueFilename)
    youtubeObject.download(output_path=tempDir, filename=uniqueFilename)
print("Youtube download is completed successfully")

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Expected behavior
The script should download a video from the provided YouTube video URL and save it with a unique filename in the temporary directory.

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Version Details :

• The script is deployed as an endpoint using FastAPI and hosted on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) App Engine.
• Python version: 3.9
• pytubefix version: 8.1.1

[JuanBindez]

This is not a bug, did you look at #209?