Welcome to the YouTube Downloader Project! In this project, you will develop a Python application that allows users to download YouTube videos for offline viewing. Your mission is to create a Python script that takes a YouTube video URL as input and downloads the video to the user's local system. This project will provide a hands-on experience with the pytube library, user input handling, and feedback mechanisms such as a download progress bar.

Users should be able to run YouTube Downloader from the command line or used as a module in other Python scripts. Here are the basic steps to use the tool:

python youtube_downloader.py <youtube-url> <video-quality> <output-directory>

You can also use argparse to parse the command line arguments. The following is an example of how to use argparse to parse the command line arguments:

python youtube_downloader.py --url <youtube-url> --quality <video-quality> --output <output-directory>

Requirements

Run the following command to install the required packages:

pip install -r requirements.txt

More about pytube

We used the pytube library for this project, which is a Python library for interfacing with YouTube content. It allows you to query for metadata about videos, streams, and playlists; as well as download video and audio streams.

To learn more about pytube, you can explore the official documentation and this repo. It will guide you through the process of using pytube and help you implement the required features for the project.