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| pytube | |
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| *pytube* is a lightweight, dependency-free Python library (and command-line utility) for downloading YouTube Videos. | |
| Description | |
| =========== | |
| YouTube is the most popular video-sharing platform in the world and as a hacker you may encounter a situation where you want to script something to download videos. For this I present to you *pytube*. | |
| *pytube* is a lightweight library written in Python. It has no third party dependencies and aims to be highly reliable. | |
| *pytube* makes *zero assumptions*, meaning there is no built-in method to get say the *"best"* quality video, *pytube* simply exposes all the available formats and resolutions, giving you the developer the power to define what *"best"* is. | |
| *pytube* also makes pipelining easy, allowing you to specify callback functions for different download events, such as ``on progress`` or ``on complete``. | |
| Finally *pytube* also includes a command-line utility, allowing you to quickly download videos right from terminal. | |
| Installation | |
| ============ | |
| Download using pip via pypi. | |
| .. code:: bash | |
| pip install pytube | |
| Easy as Py 💥 | |
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| Behold, the power of pytube: | |
| .. code-block:: python | |
| >>> from pytube import YouTube | |
| >>> YouTube('http://youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0').streams.first().download() | |