Table of Contents
1. Introduction
Sometimes you like video on YouTube so much that you want to keep it on your computer. This is good because every video can disappear if author wants and if YouTube will delete his account (see article about it). In this tutorial I will guide you how to do it using Python language.
2. Package installation
2.1. Install anaconda
To make it simple I used anaconda package manager. Below commands to install required dependencies. Check your environment and modify URL to point to your system.
curl -O https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-MacOSX-arm64.sh
sh Miniconda3-latest-MacOSX-arm64.sh
2.2. Install pytube
conda install pytube
3. Run script and get video
cat<<EOF >yt_download.py
from pytube import YouTube
import argparse
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Downloading movie from YouTube")
parser.add_argument("--videourl", type=str, help="Provide URL from YouTube", default="https://youtu.be/5vBa7AwfslE?si=0PysW5CxjH3BLFpT")
args = parser.parse_args()
url = args.videourl
yt = YouTube(url)
yt.streams.filter(progressive=True, file_extension='mp4').order_by('resolution').desc().first().download()
EOF
You can run script without any arguments so it will download sample video
conda run python yt_download.py
or specify URL to get your favorite one
conda run python yt_download.py --videourl "https://youtu.be/cpYodgzclqo?si=lTJWhzJ7QZCQQPKN"
4. Summary
In this tutorial you have learned how to create python script and use it to download video from YouTube.
Have a nice coding!
