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How to download You Tube video using Python

Intro

In this post you know about how to download youtube vidoes very easily in only in only four lines of code!!

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Requirments

pip install pytube

Pytube: Pytube is a very serious, lightweight, dependency-free Python library (and command-line utility) for downloading YouTube Videos. If You want to know more about pytube take a look of documentaion

Let's code

First import youtube from pytube

from pytube import YouTube
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youtube = YouTube('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Wb2313oHxc')
video = youtube.streams.first()
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The streams function is fetch video description, title, thumbnail and all these things but only for download video use first() with streams

Then finally use the download function to download the video and give the directory path where you want to download video

video.download('C:/Users/96650/Desktop/')
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The all code look like this!

from pytube import YouTube
youtube = YouTube('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Wb2313oHxc')
video = youtube.streams.first()
video.download('C:/Users/96650/Desktop/')
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