One of the challenges in creating Python scripts is installing and/or importing certain modules. If you’re trying to access YouTube and receive an HTTP Error 410: Gone, there is a good chance that you’re trying to use a Python module (the pytube module) that isn’t supported on your operating system. In today’s blog, we’ll review 3 ways to fix the “urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 410: Gone in Pytube” error.

How Can You Fix The “urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 410: Gone in Pytube” Problem?

When using pytube, you may get the following error if you run your code.

 File “C:\Python\lib\urllib\request.py”, line 641, in http_error_default

    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)

urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 410: Gone

Here can be your code:

from pytube import YouTube
#ask for the link from user
link = input("link of YouTube video you want to download:  ")
yt = YouTube(link)
#highest Resolution
ys = yt.streams.get_highest_resolution()
#download
ys.download()

This problem will be resolved in the most recent version of pytube, 11.0.0. Simply run this command to upgrade it: python -m pip install –upgrade pytube

Approach 1: Upgrade pytube to version 11.0.0

This problem will be resolved in the most recent version of pytube, 11.0.0. Simply run this command to upgrade it: 

python -m pip install –upgrade pytube

Approach 2: Utilize the following commandline

Zeecka can resolve this issue. Pytube can be downloaded from here.

python -m pip install git+https://github.com/Zeecka/pytube@fix_1060

Approach 3

Ssuwani can also solve this issue. Pytube can be downloaded from here.

pip install git+https://github.com/ssuwani/pytube 

Conclusion

The error “urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 410: Gone in Pytube” is a confusing error message. We hope this blog has helped clear the air around what this error message means and how to solve it. If you have more questions about this issue, please leave a comment below. Thank you for reading; we are always excited when one of our posts can provide useful information on a topic like this!