videoDetails is missing author metadata

[elulcao]

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Describe the bug
video.vid_info.get("videoDetails") data structure is missing the "author" metadata.

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code that was used that resulted in the bug

from pytubefix import YouTube as YT

        try:

            video = YT(
                "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vll0yZqaM8",
                use_oauth=True,
                allow_oauth_cache=True,
                on_progress_callback=on_progress,
            )

            video_id = video.video_id
            video_title = video.title
            video_author = video.author
            video_dir = DOWNLOAD_DIR + video_author

            if video_id in get_downloaded_videos():
                print("Skipping already downloaded: ", video_id)
                time.sleep(1)
                continue

            print(video.vid_info.get("videoDetails"))

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Expected behavior
The video.author property should contain the Youtube author instead of unknown

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Screenshots

0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vll0yZqaM8
{
      'videoId': '4vll0yZqaM8', 
      'lengthSeconds': '198', 
      'channelId': 'UCzfmH125g6CpiNGvgEasY1w', 
      'isOwnerViewing': False, 
      'isCrawlable': True, 
      'thumbnail': {
            'thumbnails': [
                  {
                        'url': 'https: //i.ytimg.com/vi/4vll0yZqaM8/hqdefault.jpg?v=673a028c', 
                        'width': 480, 
                        'height': 360
                  }
            ]
      }, 
      'allowRatings': True, 
      'isLowLatencyLiveStream': False, 
      'isPrivate': False, 
      'isUnpluggedCorpus': False, 
      'latencyClass': 
      'MDE_STREAM_OPTIMIZATIONS_RENDERER_LATENCY_NORMAL', 
      'isLiveContent': False
}

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Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Darwin mac-mini 24.1.0 Darwin Kernel Version 24.1.0: Thu Oct 10 21:05:14 PDT 2024; root:xnu-11215.41.3~2/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 arm64
• Python Version Python 3.12.7
• Pytubefix Version pytubefix-8.5.1

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Additional context
pytubefix was working fine in previous versions where the author metadata was different than unknown

[Concept211]

Do you happen to be running your code outside of the US? If so, I suspect it might be related to this since I'm also experiencing the same issue where the author property always returns "unknown" while running the code from a server in Germany:
#350 (comment)

[elulcao]

Do you happen to be running your code outside of the US? If so, I suspect it might be related to this since I'm also experiencing the same issue where the author property always returns "unknown" while running the code from a server in Germany: #350 (comment)

Yep, running code outside US 😞 I have a VPN so I can try running within it to see if there is a difference. Not a long term solution but good to know there could be a temporary fix. BTW, previous version of pytubefix was working like a charm.

[Concept211]

Do you happen to be running your code outside of the US? If so, I suspect it might be related to this since I'm also experiencing the same issue where the author property always returns "unknown" while running the code from a server in Germany: #350 (comment)

Yep, running code outside US 😞 I have a VPN so I can try running within it to see if there is a difference. Not a long term solution but good to know there could be a temporary fix. BTW, previous version of pytubefix was working like a charm.

Thanks for confirming! I suspected that was the issue. And yes, previous versions were working for me to but I lost track which one was the last working one. The data is all there, just in a different format than expected. I had written a solution for the "date posted" property but it was never used (#138 (comment)). I think something like this will need to be implemented for each property. Would be simple enough imo.