Download youtube videos

December 24, 2020

Here is a simple snippet of code that allows you download youtube video.

Before you can use it, make sure you install pytube. I could not get pip3 insteadd pytube to work, so use the following:

$ python -m pip install git+https://github.com/nficano/pytube
from pytube import YouTube

yt = YouTube('http://youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0')

print(yt.streams)

print("Title: ", yt.title)
print("Number of views: ", yt.views)
print("Length of video: ", yt.length, "seconds")
print("Description: ", yt.description)
print("Ratings: ", yt.rating)

yt.streams.filter(progressive=True, file_extension='mp4').order_by('resolution').desc().first().download()

Voila.

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