How to download Youtube videos with Go (Golang)
3 min readSep 6, 2021
Welcome back! Go (or Golang) is an awesome programming language used by many people for different projects, so let’s build out a sample project with Go. Now, in this specific project we’ll be downloading videos from Youtube with Go, on top of this, the whole entire project has already been built out, if you want to jump straight to it, here is a link to it (make sure to give the original creator all of the credit for the code):
Let’s go ahead and break down this project! First off, you can see this project houses several different files, almost all of them being .go files:
For this project, you will need to have Go 1.16 or newer, if you do not have Go installed on your machine, here is a link to download it:
