The same goes for the helper websites-a change in a site's ad network can also create issues with malware. Some of those changes are not always pleasant, such as software so full of 'extras,' it gets flagged as malware by antivirus tools. Note: This story is updated frequently, as the tools involved change regularly. If you must download a YouTube video-absolutely need to, just for yourself, and not for dissemination, and not to be a jerk-here's how. You simply do not need to download a video most of the time.īut you have your reasons. If you want to share a video, YouTube and most other video sites make it easy, from embedding to emailing to sharing via social networks. Obviously, stealing videos from YouTube is a big no-no. There's a reason YouTube runs ads: People make a living this way. If you do not give a valid YouTube URL in your command-line argument, the script will prompt you to enter one.Watching YouTube videos offline through unofficial channels takes money from Google and video creators. Run the ytd.py Python script followed by the URL of a video you wish to download. However, the first time you run the script with them on, Google will ask you to register your device (see below), which is free and takes about 30 seconds.Ĥ. You can try running the script without these, but in my experience, it will not download videos if these are not enabled. On line 7, you'll note that we are downloading our YouTube video with oauth and oauth caching enabled. If there's no argument given at the command line or the argument doesn't contain a YouTube URL, it prompts the user to paste in a YouTube URL and then downloads it in MP4 format, using the title of the video (with dashes for spaces) as the filename. It creates a blank variable called videoURL and, if there's an argument given at the command line, it checks to see if that URL contains. It first imports YouTube from pytube and sys (needed for handling command-line arguments). This is a very simple script that could be even simpler. Yt.streams.first().download(filename=filename + '.mp4') Print('Downloading YouTube File: ' + yt.title) Yt = YouTube(videoURL,use_oauth=True,allow_oauth_cache=True) Create the following Python script and save it as ytd.py or whatever you want to name it. If you're using Windows, you can get Python, which includes pip, from Ģ. Install Python and pip if you don't have them both already. The following steps will work for Windows, Linux and (likely) macOS as well.ġ. You just need to have a recent version of Python installed and be comfortable working with the command line. If you want a YouTube download process that involves fewer steps, using a Python script with pytube, a free Python library, is a great way to do it.

How to Download YouTube Videos Using Python When the download is complete, you'll find the file in the location where you set it to go.

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