π Stop downloading course lectures 1-by-1 β grab the whole playlist
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Think about the time you waste right-clicking and saving course lectures on YouTube one-by-one. Inefficient process, can cause errors and you lose focus. pytubefix eliminates that bottleneck. Today is day 3 of mastering YouTube with Python. You already know how to get stats of a single video; or download them in various formats. Now time to level up with playlists. β
Pytubefix has a Playlist object that provides methods to interact with all videos inside a YouTube playlist simultaneously.
β Here we go... β π¦ Import relevant libraries. Assign playlist url to Playlist object
In:
from pytubefix import YouTube, Playlist pl = Playlist("https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRdw3IjKY2glTEYlhXRQ4hT5vksrU5UFt")
Out:
β π Number of videos in the playlist
In:
total = len(pl.video_urls) print(total)
Out: 16
β π Get links of all videos in the playlist Have print only 3 for simplicity
In:
for video_url in pl.video_urls: print(video_url)
Out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m9tmIImmDg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZvQn5Tl_uo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4vbGBxsLyM β πΎ Download first video
In:
yt = YouTube(pl.video_urls[0]) yt.streams.get_highest_resolution().download()
Out: '~\Minnesota Vikings vs Pittsburgh Steelers Week 4 Game Preview.mp4'
β π€ Check if captions are available
In:
yt = YouTube(pl.video_urls[0]) print(yt.captions.keys())
Out: KeysView({'a.en': Caption lang="English (auto-generated)" code="a.en">})
β π© Read caption (first few words)
In:
caption = yt.captions["a.en"] print(caption.generate_srt_captions()[:200])
Out:
1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:05,120 Trust the moment, man. Be in the moment. 2 00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:07,839 Play after play after play. We some dog. β π Check video description
In:
print(yt.description[:200])
Out: Watch live local and primetime games, NFL RedZone, and NFL Network on Plus.NFL.com
Check out our other channels: β πΌοΈ Thumbnail link (if you want to download)
In:
print(yt.thumbnail_url)
Out: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VIDEO_ID/maxresdefault.jpg
β π Finally! Download all videos at once (highest resolution)
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for url in pl.video_urls: yt = YouTube(url) yt.streams.get_highest_resolution().download()
Out:
βπ£ That's it for today! If you liked it, please share it with anyone who will find it useful and share your feedback below πΌ
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