How to Download YouTube Videos Using Python with Pytube Library?

Required Module

In this tutorial, we are using the Pytube Library of Python Programming Language. You can download it using PIP in python.

pip install pytube

Approach

1. Import the pytube module and pytube.cli module.
2. Create and initialize an object of YouTube() e.g, src = YouTube(url,on_progress_callback=on_progress).
3. Use pytube.cli to get the indication as progess bar(amount of video downloaded).
4. Create a video stream e.g. video = video.streams[0].
5. Pytube object provides the download() function to download the video. e.g., video.download();
6. To set the specific location of download, you need to pass the locaton in download() function. e.g. video.download(“C:\\Downloads”);

Pytube program implementation given below.

Program 1: Download YouTube video using Python with Pytube library

The following program shows the simplest method to download the YouTube videos using Python.

   
 

# Import Pytube module to use API
from pytube import YouTube


video_url = 'https://youtu.be/mBJMkFNRVek'

#create an object of YouTube() and pass the  URL of YouTube Videos 
video = YouTube(video_url)

print("Video Downloading......")

# prepare the streams 
video  = video.streams[0].download("C:\\Downloads");

print("Video Download Completed.")

Output

Video Downloading......
Video Download Completed.

Program 2: Download YouTube video using Pytube with progress bar.

The following program can able to download the YouTube Videos with a progress bar. It uses pytube.cli to show the progress bar as output.

   
 

"""
Created on Tue May 18 20:01:47 2021
@AIM:  How to downlaod YouTube Vidoes using Python?
@author: www.codenaive.com
"""

# Import Pytube module to use API
from pytube import YouTube

# import pytube.cli to show progress bar
from pytube.cli import on_progress

video_url = 'https://youtu.be/mBJMkFNRVek'



#create an object of YouTube() and pass the  URL of YouTube Videos along with On_progress to show progress bar
video = YouTube(video_url, on_progress_callback=on_progress)

# prepare the streams 
video  = video.streams[0]

# downloa the video
video = video.download("C:\\Downloads");

Output

The progress bar output of the downloading video shown below: