Important Points to download youtube videos

  1. Make sure you are connected to the internet to download the videos. Otherwise it will raise an error.
  2. Don’t use the set_filename() function in any loop. In this case, only one video will be downloaded.
  3. You can modify the names everytime using another array of names.
  4. Connection Interruption in between will also raise an error and video will not be downloaded in that case.




Pytube | Python library to download youtube videos

YouTube is very popular video sharing website. Downloading a video from YouTube is a tough job. Downloading the Downloader and get the video using that or go to any other website which fetches the video and saves on your computer. Using Python, this task is very easy. Few lines of code will download the video from YouTube for you. For this, there a python library named as ‘pytube’. pytube is a lightweight, dependency-free Python library which is used for downloading videos from the web.

Table of Content

  • pytube
  • Downloading a single video
  • Downloading multiple videos
  • Download multiple videos using File Handling
  • Important Points to download youtube videos:

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pytube

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Downloading a single video

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Downloading multiple videos

The basic task of downloading the multiple videos is same as downloading a single video. We can use a for loop for downloading the video....

Download multiple videos using File Handling

Using file handling, we can open the file which has the group of links in it. Traversing every link of a text file and applying the very basic video downloading program is done here. Here, we have a text file named as “links_file.txt” which has all the links which need to be downloaded....

Important Points to download youtube videos:

Make sure you are connected to the internet to download the videos. Otherwise it will raise an error. Don’t use the set_filename() function in any loop. In this case, only one video will be downloaded.You can modify the names everytime using another array of names.Connection Interruption in between will also raise an error and video will not be downloaded in that case....