Download YouTube video using Python to a certain directory

Question

I have tried the following code to download a video in YouTube and it is working, but I want to save the video at a particular location. Now it is saving the video in C:/Users/Download. If I want to save the video in the desktop, what changes do I need in the code?

from __future__ import unicode_literals import youtube_dl import urllib import shutil ydl_opts = {} with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:     ydl.download(['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n06H7OcPd-g']) 

Answer 1

I found out a really cool python module that allows you to download videos from youtube easily. TO install it:

pip install pytube 

Now, You can download your video like this -

from pytube import YouTube yt = YouTube("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n06H7OcPd-g") yt = yt.get('mp4', '720p') yt.download('/path/to/download/directory') 

Boom, Now you can easily scrape such videos using Python easily; Now, We Drink!

Update 1:

Thanks to @Chiramisu's comment, You can use the following one-liner to download the highest quality video:

YouTube('video_url').streams.first().download('save_path') 

For Windows, please specify path with double backslashes ex:

YouTube('video_url').streams.first().download('C:\\Users\\username\\save_path') 

Update 2:

If pytube doesn't seem to work for you, try using youtube-dl:

pip install --upgrade youtube-dl 

Now Download Videos:

from __future__ import unicode_literals import youtube_dl  ydl_opts = {} with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:     ydl.download(['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc']) 

More info on ytdl in python here.