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.
Here are some of the things you can do with Pytube:
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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
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Extract Video Metadata: Pytube lets you retrieve metadata about a video, including its title, view count, duration, and more. extract_metadata.py
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Extract Audio: You can extract the audio from a YouTube video and save it as an audio file, such as MP3. extract_audio.py
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Video Stream Selection: Pytube provides methods to choose specific video streams based on criteria like resolution, file format, and codec. video_stream_selection.py
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Playlist Handling: Pytube can work with YouTube playlists, allowing you to download multiple videos in a playlist at once. playlist_handling.py
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Progress Monitoring: You can track the progress of downloads, which is useful for displaying download progress to users. progress_monitoring.py
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Video Captions: Pytube can fetch video captions (subtitles) and save them to a file. video_captions.py
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Proxy Support: You can configure Pytube to work with proxies if you need to access YouTube through a proxy server.
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Custom Output Paths: Specify where downloaded videos and audio files should be saved.
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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.
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Video Filtering: You can filter video search results by criteria like upload date, video duration, and more.
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Authentication: Pytube can handle YouTube's age-restricted and private videos when you provide the appropriate authentication credentials.
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Error Handling: The library provides error handling and exception handling to address common issues that may arise during video download.
To get started with Pytube, you can install it using pip
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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")
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