Have ideas for how pytube async can be improved? Feel free to open an issue or a pull request!
pytube async is a fork of pytube - pytube.io Note: this is not actively maintained, only occasionally
The code is the Documentation...
Pytube Async's parent's documentation is useful and can be found on pytube.io.
Note: almost every property/method is an async method.
Pytube requires an installation of python 3.6 or greater, as well as pip. Pip is typically bundled with python installations, and you can find options for how to install python at https://python.org.
Note: i will put this on pypy sometime soonish
To install from source with pip:
$ python -m pip install git+https://github.com/msemple1111/pytubeon windows, open cmd.exe and run:
py -m pip install git+https://github.com/msemple1111/pytubeNote: this is not maintained as much as the parent project, only when things break - open an issue if you find a bug.
YouTube is the most popular video-sharing platform in the world and as a hacker you may encounter a situation where you want to script something to download videos. For this I present to you pytube async.
pytube async is a lightweight library written in Python. It has no third party dependencies and aims to be highly reliable.
pytube async also makes pipelining easy, allowing you to specify callback functions
for different download events, such as on progress or on complete.
- asyncio support!!
- Support for both progressive & DASH streams
- Support for downloading complete playlists
- Easily register
on_download_progress&on_download_completecallbacks - Command-line interfaced included
- Caption track support
- Outputs caption tracks to .srt format (SubRip Subtitle)
- Ability to capture thumbnail URL
- Extensively documented source code
- No third-party dependencies
This guide is only meant to cover the most basic usage of the library.
To download a video using the library in a script, you'll need to first import the YouTube class from the library, and pass it an argument of the video url. From there, you can access the streams and download them. Note: async code needs to run inside the event loop
>>> from pytube import YouTube
>>> yt = YouTube('https://youtu.be/2lAe1cqCOXo')
>>> streams = await yt.streams
>>> video = streams.filter(progressive=True, file_extension='mp4').first()
>>> await video.download()