Fun Project Series - Youtube downloader

Seen a youtube video and looking to download it with your own code?

We watch many youtube videos and have downloaded them using plugins or websites. If you’re looking to write your own utility to download them, then all you need is a Python library and a URL to a video. Follow along now!

Step 1 - Install pytube

!pip install pytube

Step 2 - Create a YouTube Object

# refer API docs - https://pypi.org/project/pytube/7.0.18/
video = pytube.YouTube('URL')

Step 3 - Retrieve the first stream

# There are many streams of which the best quality is the first stream video = YouTube('URL').streams.first()  

Step 4 - Download the file to your current directory

video.download('.')

Voila! You’re done. See full code here