You tube video downloader using python

In this post I am going to tell you how you can make Python Scripts for downloading the youtube
videos.

Requirements:-

1. Make sure Python is installed in your Computer
2. Good Internet Speed
3. understanding of Python basics
4. Libraries :- beautifulsoup4 , urllib ,requests
5. IDE for coding (I am using jupyter notebook) you can use any IDE of your choice

Installations :-Well urllib are built in libraries so we only need to install the beautifulsoup4 library and requests.

1. open the Command Prompt i.e cmd and enter the below code.
2. pip install beautifulsoup4
3. pip install requests

Write Program :-Lets Write the program.

Step 1:- Now import the below libraries in the program.

import bs4
import urllib.request
import requests

Step 2:- we will write a code to take video or playlist url as an input

Note:- this program cannot download the music/song videos.

playlist_url=input("Enter Playlist or Youtube URL")

Step 3:- Now we have the URL of the video or playlist then we will send the "get" request for the url and we get the html page as a response.

requested_page=requests.get(playlist_url)

Now if  we try to print the "requested_page" it will print the status of the request

for example:- 

                   

For successful request status code is 200 that means our request is successful

print(requested_page)

output:-<Response [200]>

if you want to see the html content of the requested page then use the below code

print(requested_page.text)

step 3:- Now we will parse the content of the requested_page we received. for parsing we will use soup library.

soup=bs4.BeautifulSoup(requested_page.text,"html.parser")

soup = soup.prettify()
print(soup)

step 4:- we know that youtube playlist contains many videos and we want the links of each and every video for the further steps. for url extraction use the below code.

all_video_url=[]
for links in soup.find_all('a'):
    links=links.get('href')
    if str(links).find('/watch')>=0 and "https://www.youtube.com"+str(links) not in all_video_url and str(links).find('index')>=0:
        all_video_url.append("https://www.youtube.com"+str(links))

else:
    if len(all_video_url) is 0:
        all_video_url.append(playlist_url)
    print("Total Videos in the Playlist are ",len(all_video_url))
    for e in all_video_url:
        print(e)

step 5:- Now we have all the link of youtube video that need to be downloaded in the 'all_video_url' list. we need an API for finding the downloading url.

downloader_api="http://www.youtube-video-downloader.xyz/download?video=" 
def find_download_url(request_video_page):
    soup=bs4.BeautifulSoup(request_video_page.text,"html.parser")
    for each_tr_tag in soup.find_all('a'):     
        video_link=each_tr_tag.get('href')
        if str(video_link).find('r')==8:
            return str(video_link)

step 6:- Downloading of video ,In the below code replace the "videos/deep_learning/"  in the full_path="videos/deep_learning/"+f"video{video_counter}"+".mp4" with your folder path where you wanna save the video.

video_counter=1

for each_url in all_video_url:
    request_video_page=requests.get(downloader_api+each_url)
    print(f"\nFinding the url of Video={video_counter}.....\n")
    mp4_link=find_download_url(request_video_page)
    video_title=mp4_link[mp4_link.find('title'):]
    video_title=video_title[6:].replace("+"," ")
    
    print("video title="+video_title)
    print(f"{mp4_link}")
    
    try:
        print(" Downloading video="+str(video_counter)+"\n")
        print("\n")
        
        #path where u want to save the videos
        #here enter your path
        full_path="videos/deep_learning/"+f"video{video_counter}"+".mp4"
        downloading=urllib.request.urlretrieve(str(mp4_link)[:mp4_link.find('&title')+1],full_path)
        print(f"Downloading of Video{video_counter} is complete\n ")
    except Exception as e:
        print(e)
        input("press anything to proceed")
        print(f"Unable to Download video={video_counter}")
    
    video_counter+=1
else:
    print("All videos are downloaded")

Step 7:- Thats it

updated:- the above Script has been updated now on Github. plz use the latest Script

Latest Script

See the Demonstration of this Project

Thank you for reading  the post