This article has been split into two sections. If you have ever fancied the idea of building your own YouTube video downloader, then this article is for you it will show you step-by-step how to build a YouTube video downloader using Python. You might run into a situation where you want to have some of your favorite YouTube videos on your local computer, and to do this, you will need a video downloader for downloading these videos. It is a platform that also enables users to live-stream and watch videos online. When you click on Download button a video will be downloaded in your Django project’s directory.YouTube is a great platform where you can find tons of great video resources, be it programming, entrepreneurship, movies, etc. Go to localhost:8000/youtube to check our YouTube video downloader. In the command line type: $ python manage.py runserver ĥ/ Now we will define the path or map urls to views inside the urls.py from ntrib import admin from django.urls import path from YTVapp import views To do this we will use Django's POST method using csrf token for security. Inside the templates folder, we will create 'index.html' file where user can enter the url from YouTube to download the video. # render HTML page return render(request, 'index.html', )Ĥ/ To define how to display it to the users, we will need a HTML file.įirst, create a 'templates' folder inside 'YTVapp'. # check thod is post or not if thod = 'POST': We need to import YouTube function from pytube. Create a function that receives the video link and download video from that link. We need to add our app in INSTALLED_APPS list in the settings.py INSTALLED_APPS = [ģ/ Go to views.py. It will create a project named 'YTVdownloader' $ django- admin startproject YTVdownloaderĢ/ Let's create the video downloader application in our project. To create the project run the following command. $ pip install djangoġ/ It is time to create our project. We can now install the libraries in the env.
(This project is done on Windows machine)
To install the libraries in separate folder, create a virtual environment. Built by experienced developers, it takes care of much of the hassle of web development, so you can focus on writing your app without needing to reinvent the wheel. 'pytube' ( pytube.io/en/latest) is a lightweight, Pythonic, dependency-free, library (and command-line utility) for downloading YouTube Videos.ĭjango: Django ( ) is a high-level Python web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
We can do this in few lines of Python code, basic HTML and Django. This tutorial will show you how to create a simple application that downloads YouTube videos.
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