Pytube - Python

Pytube is a lightweight, simple to use library in Python for downloading videos from YouTube. It is built on top of the YouTube API, providing a simple interface to download videos and audio tracks in various formats.

Installation

To get started with Pytube, you can install it using pip:

pip install pytube

Usage

Pytube provides a simple interface to download videos from YouTube. You can download the video/audio in different formats and qualities. Here is an example code to download a video:

from pytube import YouTube

# create YouTube object
yt = YouTube('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ')

# stream video
stream = yt.streams.first()

# download video
stream.download()

In this code, we first create a YouTube object by passing the URL of the video to download. We then get the first stream of the video, which is the highest quality available. Finally, we download the video using the stream's download() method.

Features

Pytube has a lot of useful features, some of which include:

• Download videos from YouTube
• Download audio tracks from YouTube
• Download videos in different formats and qualities
• Download only a specific portion of the video
• Get video and audio metadata
• And much more!

Conclusion

Pytube is a very useful library in Python for downloading videos and audio tracks from YouTube. It is easy to use and provides a lot of useful features. Whether you want to download videos for personal use or you want to integrate video downloading functionality into your application, Pytube is definitely worth checking out.