# YouTube Audio Skill - testing and feedback
**URL:** https://community.openconversational.ai/t/youtube-audio-skill-testing-and-feedback/7206
**Category:** Feedback / Support
**Created:** [September 11, 2019, 11:53pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/youtube-audio-skill-testing-and-feedback/7206 "2019-09-11T23:53:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@j1nx](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/j1nx)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2020, 1:33pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/youtube-audio-skill-testing-and-feedback/7206/41 "2020-03-21T13:33:37Z")
This skill uses the Pafy library to get the best audio URL. Have a look at line 101;
```
def get_stream_url(self, youtube_url):
abs_url = base_url + youtube_url
LOG.debug('pafy processing: ' + abs_url)
streams = pafy.new(abs_url)
LOG.debug('audiostreams found: ' + str(streams.audiostreams));
bestaudio = streams.getbestaudio()
LOG.debug('audiostream selected: ' + str(bestaudio));
return bestaudio.url
```
Perhaps you can change it to this (untested) to always return the best video url instead of the best audio url, which if not found returns the video url (that 5%)
```
def get_stream_url(self, youtube_url):
abs_url = base_url + youtube_url
LOG.debug('pafy processing: ' + abs_url)
streams = pafy.new(abs_url)
LOG.debug('videostreams found: ' + str(streams.videostreams));
bestvideo = streams.getbestvideo()
LOG.debug('videostream selected: ' + str(bestvideo));
return bestvideo.url
```
Give it a test run and let us know đ
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### Author:  [@iguanen](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/iguanen)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2020, 3:27pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/youtube-audio-skill-testing-and-feedback/7206/42 "2020-03-21T15:27:17Z")
the video starts, but there is no sound⌠and if I close the video the skill crashâes
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### Author:  [@j1nx](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/j1nx)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2020, 7:01pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/youtube-audio-skill-testing-and-feedback/7206/43 "2020-03-21T19:01:38Z")
Right! Then we have to wait for the dev. Was just shooting from the hip. Perhaps AIX his skill might give some pointers as it is a GUI skil.
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### Author:  [@malevolent](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/malevolent)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2020, 8:31am UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/youtube-audio-skill-testing-and-feedback/7206/44 "2020-03-30T08:31:07Z")
Iâve just installed again mark1 and the skills seems no longer working. Am I wrong and I need to do something special?
I try to install manually VLC and requirements.txt with pip3, but no luck either. Iâm afraid the skill doesnât work with debian jessie, as it cannot install neither vlc-bin nor vlc-plugin-base and installing full vlc doesnât do the trick
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### Author:  [@djay](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/djay)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2020, 1:38pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/youtube-audio-skill-testing-and-feedback/7206/45 "2020-04-10T13:38:38Z")
Hi guys,
i am new to mycroft and trying to learn and understand stuff đ
I installed the skill through ssh, and itâs telling me itâs installed. But whenever i tell mycroft to play smth on YouTube, it would tell me what it doesnât know what to do.
Did I miss anything?
I would appreciate a hint.
I am on the latest mycroft stable on a RPi 4 + ReSpeaker Mic Array v2
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### Author:  [@drgnomage](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/drgnomage)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2020, 9:13pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/youtube-audio-skill-testing-and-feedback/7206/46 "2020-05-21T21:13:01Z")
I ran into an error while trying to use the skill, it had worked correctly before hand. I believe this is due to the fact that search result returns live now videos.
Error: [https://pastebin.com/tDbWuPAy](https://pastebin.com/tDbWuPAy)
Also the âplay song/artistâ function conflicts with Mycroftâs own NPR news skill and starts playing foreign news. Would it be better to use Youtube as the verb? âHey mycroft, youtube Led Zeppelinâ
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### Author:  [@gnicolas31](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/gnicolas31)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2020, 6:55pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/youtube-audio-skill-testing-and-feedback/7206/47 "2020-06-30T18:55:26Z")
Hi guy, awesome work, Iâve tried it yesterday It seem to be working be today I just saying that no result bad been found. It connect well to youtube, I think maybe itâs from the Soup FindAll function but canât be sure.
Can you have a look ? đ
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### Author:  [@antdog\_evervast](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/antdog_evervast)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2020, 6:03pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/youtube-audio-skill-testing-and-feedback/7206/48 "2020-07-01T18:03:08Z")
ran into same issue⌠skill was awesome yesterday⌠something tells me youtube made changes. i tried updating the youtube dl⌠no luck
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### Author:  [@JarbasAl](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/JarbasAl)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2020, 2:38am UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/youtube-audio-skill-testing-and-feedback/7206/49 "2020-07-09T02:38:04Z")
i already posted this in another thread, but you might want to look at
> **[HelloChatterbox/youtube\_searcher](https://github.com/HelloChatterbox/youtube_searcher)**
>
> search youtube. Contribute to HelloChatterbox/youtube\_searcher development by creating an account on GitHub.
there is very minimal bs4 parsing, i only extract a json\_blob, everything else is a dictionary lookup, so it is faster and less likely to break
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### Author:  [@pcwii](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/pcwii)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2020, 2:17am UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/youtube-audio-skill-testing-and-feedback/7206/50 "2020-07-14T02:17:02Z")
I have been playing with your youtube\_searcher and am trying to figure out your query parameters.
I am surprised by some of the results i get or donât get.
If I search âcaptain marvelâ i get a result.
if I search âcaptain marvel trailerâ i donât get any results.
if I search âofficial captain marvel trailerâ I get results.
is there a format I should use to get the best results then search the title from the returned json to filter my searches further?
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### Author:  [@Hexeratops](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/Hexeratops)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2020, 9:21pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/youtube-audio-skill-testing-and-feedback/7206/51 "2020-07-19T21:21:05Z")
As someone who wrote a [very similar skill](https://github.com/hexeratops/mycroft-youtube-skill), I think the dream is dead. It seems that the search page is now dependent on JavaScript to actually render the results into something meaningful. The content coming back from the python requests library doesnât actually contain the search results as parsable HTML anymore, which is why there are no search results.
Edit: @JarbasAl Sorry, I saw your post, but I didnât know you were addressing that particular problem. Iâll see if I can implement your package and get it working.
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### Author:  [@JarbasAl](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/JarbasAl)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2020, 11:14pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/youtube-audio-skill-testing-and-feedback/7206/52 "2020-07-19T23:14:04Z")
@Hexeratops see my link aboveâŚ
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### Author:  [@JarbasAl](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/JarbasAl)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2020, 11:16pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/youtube-audio-skill-testing-and-feedback/7206/53 "2020-07-19T23:16:39Z")
@pcwii in my case i get results for all those queries except âcaptain marvelâ
ill try to debug further and update the package, PRs welcome
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### Author:  [@JarbasAl](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/JarbasAl)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2020, 1:20am UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/youtube-audio-skill-testing-and-feedback/7206/54 "2020-07-20T01:20:26Z")
@pcwii something is weird with youtube, i almost never get results for captain marvel, but maybe 1 in 10 times i do⌠see [https://paste.ofcode.org/QgEyMnp8292uXKyJvrmUEb](https://paste.ofcode.org/QgEyMnp8292uXKyJvrmUEb)
Meanwhile while debugging this i added a few more things, specifically full movies, promoted videos, corrected query, and video description, new minor version is 0.1.2
Letâs move this discussion to github
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### Author:  [@ttg221](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/ttg221)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2020, 8:53pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/youtube-audio-skill-testing-and-feedback/7206/55 "2020-08-08T20:53:13Z")
Any update on search queries working? Was looking forward to trying this out once I setup my mycroft.
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### Author:  [@pcwii](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/pcwii)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2020, 9:39pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/youtube-audio-skill-testing-and-feedback/7206/56 "2020-08-08T21:39:37Z")
I think the @JarbasAl skill is working or you could try the @gnicolas31 skill here.
> [@Play from youtube skill](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/play-from-youtube-skill/1158/31):
>
> Guys, just for information, Iâve forked the Mcdruid Repo with the pcwii update if anyone need , available here :
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