artmiss-gns / youtube-downloader

This project enables downloading videos from YouTube via direct URLs or playlists. It provides a simple command-line interface for fetching and saving files locally.

YouTube Downloader

This is a command line program for downloading YouTube videos written in Python. It provides a simple interface using Click.

Usage

The downloader can be used to fetch a single video or full playlist.

To download a single video:

python main.py download [VIDEO_URL]

To download a full playlist:

python main.py download [PLAYLIST_URL] 

By default videos will be saved to ~/Downloads but a custom destination can be specified with the -d flag:

python main.py download -d /path/to/videos [URL]

Requirements

This program requires Python 3 and the following Python packages:

• Click
• PyTube

Install requirements with pip:

pip install click pytube

Implementation

The main entrypoint is main.py which provides a Click interface. This handles parsing commands and arguments.

The YouTubeDownloader class in youtube_downloader.py contains methods for fetching YouTube video data, downloading, and handling playlists.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Let me know if you would like me to explain or expand on any part of this README!