๐ฏ Pick exact YouTube quality you want
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Welcome back to Pandas Daily! Your daily 5-minute boost to becoming confident in Python. โ Yesterday we introduced pytubefix - a powerful module to access YouTube. We downloaded a video as well. Cool, but basic. What if you want 1080p instead of 480p. Or prefer WebM over MP4. To answer all this - let's cover downloads in depth today. ๐คซ I am 100% sure you can charm recruiters or your colleagues as they won't know this! โ ๐ฅ Code Recap: How to download YouTube video
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# Import library from pytubefix import YouTube # Assign video we want to analyze (Taylor Swift- august) url = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn_0zPAfyo8" yt = YouTube(url) # Download stream = yt.streams.get_highest_resolution() stream.download()
Out: '/user/home/directory/path/Taylor Swift โ august (Official Lyric Video).mp4'
โ ๐ช๐ช Lets start now with the magic.. โ โ๏ธ Save video in a different name
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stream.download(filename="my_custom_name.mp4")
Out: '/user/home/directory/path/my_custom_name.mp4'
โ ๐ฎ Chose resolution as per your need
In:
stream = yt.streams.filter(res="720p").first() stream.download(filename="720p_format.mp4")
Out: '/user/home/directory/path/720p_format.mp4'
โ ๐ฅ๏ธ What all resolutions are available? 'streams' basically tells what all downloadable forms are available - resolution, extension etc. Output is a sample.
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for stream in yt.streams: print(f"Resolution: {stream.resolution}, Extension: {stream.subtype}")
Out:
Resolution: 720p, Extension: mp4 Resolution: None, Extension: webm Resolution: 1080p, Extension: mp4 Resolution: 480p, Extension: mp4 โ ๐ฅ So why not download the best quality Note this on your computer: Size 1080p is 25MB while 720p was 5.6MB
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stream = yt.streams.filter(res="1080p").first() stream.download(filename="1080p_format.mp4")
Out: '/user/home/directory/path/1080p_format.mp4'
โ ๐ Change extension from 'mp4' to 'webm'
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stream = yt.streams.filter(file_extension='webm').first() stream.download(filename="new_format.webm")
Out: '/user/home/directory/path/new_format.webm'
โ ๐ฌ Download only video (no audio)
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video_stream = yt.streams.filter(only_video=True).first() video_stream.download(filename="only_video.mp4")
Out: '/user/home/directory/path/only_video.mp4'
โ ๐ต Download audio file separately
In:
audio_stream = yt.streams.filter(only_audio=True).first() audio_stream.download(filename="audio_only.m4a")
Out: '/user/home/directory/path/audio_only.m4a'
โญ๐ฃ That's it for today! If you liked it, please share it with anyone who will find it useful and share your feedback below ๐ผ
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