Youtube-Downloader

YouTube video, audio, and playlist downloader with pytube.

Update

This project is no longer maintained. Use the this project instead.

Why did I write this script?

Because of Google. I was using FDM to download videos from Youtube until Google came and caused the FDM team to drop this feature for unknown reasons (a real mystery indeed). There are similar apps and even online websites that can download from youtube. You only have to be content with what they decided to give (or show) you until Google comes again to do its usual business with them.

Another reason is my need for a fast and easy-to-use keyboard method to download videos from youtube and select all the parameters I want.

Features:

• Download video streams.
• Download audio streams.
• Download a video stream and an audio stream, then merge them with ffmpeg.
• Download a playlist or a subset of a playlist.
• Download individual videos from links in a text file.
• Download Arabic & English subtitles (manually created or auto-generated if the former is not available).
• Download the video description (auto downloaded for playlists).
• Terminal arguments support skipping the input steps.
• TUI elements.
• Runs in Android (Termux).

Prerequisites:

• Install ffmpeg. (You can see how to here)
• pip install pytube
• `pip install youtube_dl'
• pip install yt-dlp
• pip install rich
• pip install questionary for the TUI prompts.
• pip install playsound to enable notification sounds.

Usage:

You can either run this script normally by entering inputs as asked or simply use terminal arguments to skip the input steps. Ex:

• Step by step: python "main.py".
• With terminal args: python "main.py" [script_mode] [youtube_link] [start_video_number] [end_video_number].

Run python "main.py" --help for a usage help message.

For Android Users:

You can use this script by downloading Termux. It is available in Play Store and F-Droid, but I highly recommend that you download the F-Droid version, as the Play Store version causes some problems.

After Downloading Termux, execute these commands:

• termux-setup-storage to get storage permissions.
• apt update && apt full-upgrade
• pkg install ffmpeg
• pkg install python
• pip install --upgrade pip
• Then install the mentioned packages above.

Bonus Section:

• If you are using a terminal that supports aliases, you can run this script with less typing, for example:
  • alias ppp=python "E:\...\main.py" $*
  • $* is used to support arguments.
• Termux supports aliases, but it requires you to add a \ before any space or bracket, for example:
  • alias ccc=cd\ "/storage/emulated/0/\[My\ Scripts\]\ \[Python\ 3\]/Programming".
  • The destination without backslashes directs to /storage/emulated/0/[My Scripts] [Python 3]/Programming.