How To Make a YouTube Video Downloader Using Python!

Welcome back! I watch a ton of YouTube videos, I also love programming in Python, so let’s combine the two! Downloading YouTube videos is not only fairly easy to do, but is a very good beginner project to get yourself familiar with Python! In order to get started make sure you have Python installed on your machine, if you haven’t you can use this article I made to install Python:

How To Install Python On Windows / MacOS!

let’s get started!

Building The Program!

First off, we want to install the pytube package, to do this we use the following pip command:

pip install pytube

Awesome, once we have this package installed we have a few different things we can do, we can download the video by going into our terminal / command prompt and typing in the following command:

pytube INSERT THE YOUTUBE LINK HERE

This will download the Youtube video onto our machine, but this isn’t that fun, so let’s open up our Python environment and get to coding! We want to start off by importing…