thiamfook / pyytdownload

Youtube video downloader using pytube

Youtube video downloader using pytube

Modified from the code supplied in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEQ8CXFWLZU by Internet Made Coder.

Added link validation, and also the download progress bar. The progress bar idea is from https://stackoverflow.com/a/68419849/5258525.

Prerequisite

Have Python 3 installed. Download it from https://www.python.org/downloads/

Install pytube library (version 15):

pip install pytube

Run downloader

Run the downloader.py in the terminal/Powershell, then supply the Youtube URL to download:

$ python .\downloader.py
Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEQ8CXFWLZU
Title:  3 PYTHON AUTOMATION PROJECTS FOR BEGINNERS
Views:  532649
Downloading...
Done!███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| 100.0%

Offical websites

• PyTube: https://pytube.io/