In this tutorial, we will use some steps to introduce how to download youtube videos using python pytube library.
1.Install pytube
As to python 3, you can install as follows:
pip install pytube3
as to python 2, you can do:
pip install pytube
Then we can start to download youtube videos.
2.Import library
import pytube
3.Create a youtube object by video url
url = 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t1_ffaFXao' youtube = pytube.YouTube(url)
4.Get youtube video
video = youtube.streams.first() # or the best quality: video = youtube.streams.get_highest_resolution()
5.Start to download youtube video
video.download('videos')
6.Get youtube video infomration
video.age_restricted video.title video.id
Meanwhile, some videos you can not download, you can try python pafy library. Here is the tutorial: