Download a video from Youtube with Python is very simple, just a couple of lines of code and a module called pytube to install.
Install pytube
Go in the cmd or powershell (in windows) and install pytube like this:
pip install pytube
Then open your editor write this code, save it as ytube.py, for example, and run it.
from pytube import YouTube
yt = YouTube("https://youtu.be/1ckBWihtEVc")
print(yt.title)
stream = yt.streams.first()
stream.download() # this will download in your current working Dir
That is all the code you need to download a video from youtube.
Error downloading (april 2019): how to fix it
Go in the extract.py file in lib/site-packages/pytube/ dir of your python installation and comment some lines of code (116…) about the t variable and you’re done.
You can also get the subtitles from a video
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