A lightweight Python library for downloading YouTube Videos
pytube
pytube is a very serious, lightweight, dependency-free Python library (and command-line utility) for downloading YouTube Videos.
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 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.
Features
- Support for both progressive & DASH streams
- Support for downloading complete playlist
- Easily register