Troubleshooting: Having errors when running tool SearchYoutubeVideos

[intr3pid64]

Hi so I am trying to use the tool SearchYoutubeVideos. I have a function that should execute the tool and return links to videos, but an Error code: 400 - {'name': 'malformed_request', 'message': 'invalid tool name'} keeps popping up. I read the tool documentation and the tool name should be SearchYoutubeVideos. I am not sure whether I am using the wrong syntax for calling on it or whatever it is. My functions code is below:

async def _search_youtube_videos(self, keywords: str, max_results: int = 3):

        """Search YouTube for videos related to the keywords using Arcade.dev."""
        try:
            tool_response = self.arcade_client.tools.execute(
                tool_name="SearchYoutubeVideos",
                input={"keywords": keywords}
            )
            if hasattr(tool_response, 'value') and isinstance(tool_response.value, list):
                videos = tool_response.value[:max_results]
                links = [v.get('url') or v.get('link') for v in videos if v.get('url') or v.get('link')]
                return links
            return []
        except Exception as e:
            print(f"Error searching YouTube videos: {str(e)}")
            return []

[evantahler]

Try Search.SearchYoutubeVideos.

In the "execute" section of the dashboard playground (https://api.arcade.dev/dashboard/playground/execute) you can try out tools and generate the python or JS code to call them.

[intr3pid64]

Seems to work with the execute part, thanks for that. However it doesn't seem to find any youtube videos no matter what keywords I give. Not sure if I need to authenticate a user, the playground is telling me I don't need to. I'm testing my code on a test file below,

 Simple test script for searching YouTube videos using Arcade.dev
# Defines a function search_youtube_videos that returns a list of video links for given keywords

from arcadepy import Arcade

arcade_client = Arcade()

# Function to search YouTube videos using Arcade.dev
def search_youtube_videos(keywords, max_results=3):
    try:
        tool_response = arcade_client.tools.execute(
            tool_name="Search.SearchYoutubeVideos",
            input={"keywords": keywords,
            "language_code": "en"}
        )
        print(tool_response)
        print(tool_response.value)
        if hasattr(tool_response, 'value') and isinstance(tool_response.value, list):
            videos = tool_response.value[:max_results]
            links = [v.get('url') or v.get('link') for v in videos if v.get('url') or v.get('link')]
            return links
        return []
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"Error searching YouTube videos: {str(e)}")
        return []

# Example usage
if __name__ == "__main__":
    query = input("Enter the topic to search on YouTube: ").strip()
    if query:
        print(f"Searching YouTube for: {query}")
        links = search_youtube_videos(query)
        print(here)
        if links:
            print("\nFound video links:")
            for link in links:
                print(link)
        else:
            print("No YouTube videos found for this topic.")
    else:
        print("No topic entered. Exiting.") 

No matter what keywords I input, it always returns with "No youtube videos are found for this topic". Let me know if I am doing something wrong here please. Some things I inputted were "Mitosis" and "Python tutorial", and in the playground it gave back results but here it doesnt seem to.

[evantahler]

It looks like you aren't setting a user_id as an argument for arcade_client.tools.execute - does that help?

[intr3pid64]

Okay yeah I see it, what would be user_id be? Is it the YouTube account email for the user, or is it an api key?

[evantahler]

Usually it's the user's email address or Id - however you want to identify them in your app/agent.