Creating a simple YouTube Video Downloader using coding

Why You Need To Create a Simple Video Downloader

The need to download videos from YouTube is increasing with the rise in popularity of YouTube.

YouTube has been around for a while now and it has become one of the most popular sites on the internet. Millions of people use it every day to watch videos, upload their own videos or just enjoy other people’s content.

However, there are certain limitations that we can’t overcome when using YouTube. One of these limitations is that you can only watch a video online and not download it to your computer. This means that if you want to watch a video offline, you have to create an account on YouTube and store it in your account first before watching it offline. And if you want to upload your own video on YouTube, you also have to create an account first before

Every video on YouTube has a unique ID. The link to a YouTube video generally looks like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BXJIjfJCsA

The series of characters fJ9rUzIMcZQin this link represents the unique ID of this video, given by the GET query parameter v.

We will see various things we can do with our Youtube Downloader and the various functionalities it offers to us. So, let’s do it step by step.

1. Downloading and Importing the libraries
2. Accepting Input from User
3. Revealing various Information about the Video
4. Looking at Streams Available

TOP Lessons

Learn to build a simple working YouTube downloader using Python with the help of PyTube3 – https://github.com/shubham1710/Youtube-downloader

Learn to build a simple working YouTube downloader using JavaScript – https://github.com/ytdl-node/ytdl