How to download video from youtube using python module ?

We are going to learn how to download youtube videos using python module.

First of all you need to install the youtube-dl module. For installation follow the steps and commands.

Note: Windows user use pip instead of pip3.

~$ pip3 install youtube-dl
Collecting youtube-dl
  Downloading youtube_dl-2020.6.16.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.8 MB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 1.8 MB 273 kB/s 
Installing collected packages: youtube-dl
Successfully installed youtube-dl-2020.6.16.1

After installation you need a single command to download video, copy the link of video form the browser. As shown below paste the link in command prompt or terminal followed by youtube-dl.

~$ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jppi2eUAq2k
[youtube] jppi2eUAq2w: Downloading webpage
[download] Destination: Stay Home And Sing With Me-jppi2eUAq2w.mp4
[download]   0.4% of 758.49MiB at 241.61KiB/s ETA 53:20^Z

Downloading started.

You can also create a python script to download multiple videos at once.

For that create a python file (eg. download_video.py) and paste the below script or code into the file.

import youtube_dl


def download():
	video_url = input("Enter URL: ")
	video_info = youtube_dl.YoutubeDL().extract_info(
		url=video_url, download = False
		)
	file = f"{video_info['title']}.mp3"
	options={
		'format':'bestvideo+bestaudio',
		'writethumbnail':'writethumbnail',
		'writesubtitles':'writesubtitles',
		'writedescription':'writedescription'
	}
	with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(options) as ydl:
		ydl.download([video_info['webpage_url']])

if __name__ == '__main__':
	download()

With the help of this you can also download entire playlists, metadata, thumbnails, subtitles, annotations, descriptions, audio, and many more more easily.

1. 'format' : 'bestvideo+bestaudio' it will download the file in best quality.
2. 'writethumbnail' : 'writethumbnail' download thumbnail image of video.
3. 'writesubtitles' : 'writesubtitles' if subtitle is avilable then it will download.
4. 'writedescription' : 'writedescription' write video description in a file.

I hope you successfully download the video if you face any problem plz let me know in the comment section.

Thanks for Reading!