Pytube

Pytube is a powerful Python library that provides a range of features and capabilities for working with YouTube videos. If you're looking to work with YouTube videos in your Python projects, Pytube is a handy tool to have in your toolkit.

Features and Capabilities

Here are some of the things you can do with Pytube:

• Download YouTube Videos: You can use Pytube to download videos from YouTube. It allows you to specify the video quality and format you want to download. DownloadYouTubeVideos.py

• Extract Video Metadata: Pytube lets you retrieve metadata about a video, including its title, view count, duration, and more. extract_metadata.py

• Extract Audio: You can extract the audio from a YouTube video and save it as an audio file, such as MP3. extract_audio.py

• Video Stream Selection: Pytube provides methods to choose specific video streams based on criteria like resolution, file format, and codec. video_stream_selection.py

• Playlist Handling: Pytube can work with YouTube playlists, allowing you to download multiple videos in a playlist at once. playlist_handling.py

• Progress Monitoring: You can track the progress of downloads, which is useful for displaying download progress to users. progress_monitoring.py

• Video Captions: Pytube can fetch video captions (subtitles) and save them to a file. video_captions.py

• Proxy Support: You can configure Pytube to work with proxies if you need to access YouTube through a proxy server.

• Custom Output Paths: Specify where downloaded videos and audio files should be saved.

• Downloading Only Audio Streams: If you're interested in downloading only the audio of a video, Pytube allows you to select and download audio streams.

• Video Filtering: You can filter video search results by criteria like upload date, video duration, and more.

• Authentication: Pytube can handle YouTube's age-restricted and private videos when you provide the appropriate authentication credentials.

• Error Handling: The library provides error handling and exception handling to address common issues that may arise during video download.

Getting Started

To get started with Pytube, you can install it using pip:

pip install pytube

For more information and detailed usage instructions, please refer to the Pytube documentation.

Example Here's a simple example of how to use Pytube to download a video and extract its metadata:

from pytube import YouTube

url = 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOUR_VIDEO_ID'
yt = YouTube(url)

print("Video Title:", yt.title)
print("Video Views:", yt.views)
print("Video Length:", yt.length, "seconds")

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more details.

Acknowledgments

Special thanks to Piyushhacker (Piyush Mujmule) .

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