Very slow downloading! ~59 KB/S

[Minosaurier]

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Description

When i want to download a playlist of around ~100 songs.
Every single one of them takes a lot of time.
At first it jumps to ~40 % with >2000 KB/S then getting really slow until 100%

Sry for bad english

Log

soon

[linusg]

So, actually this seems to be a question, not a feature request.
There are a lot of possible causes, none of these are under our control. Which means, we can't do anything about it.

• Your ISP slowing down the connection speed
• YouTube servers slowing down the connection speed
• Same for Spotify servers

etc.

[ritiek]

Actually, YouTube servers are responsible for this instead of Spotify.

[ritiek]

Yep, YouTube is up to something fishy. I tried downloading few songs and also directly with wget, they seem to be throttling download speed on my side as well.

[ritiek]

Here is a relevant tracking issue: mps-youtube/pafy#199. I'll re-open this so that people know that devs are trying to find a workaround for this issue.

[ritiek]

f943080 partially fixes this.

[Minosaurier]

nice thanks, multithreading will fix it most likely

[ritiek]

For anyone who stumbles here. This issue has been fixed in pafy. Install the latest development code for pafy with:

$ pip3 install git+https://github.com/mps-youtube/pafy.git -U

And there should be no more throttling.