Installation

1. Download FFmpeg and add it to $PATH.
2. Install package from PyPi.

pip install MyTube_dlp

Usage

import MyTube
import asyncio

link = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
yt = MyTube.YouTube(link)

Get video info

print(yt.title)
print(yt.author)
print(yt.duration)

>>> Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Music Video)
>>> Rick Astley
>>> 212

Find out more about other properties here.

Get streams

muxed_stream = yt.streams.filter(only_muxed=True).first()

A muxed stream is a single stream that contains both audio and video data combined (or "multiplexed") together in one file.

Unfortunately, the quality of these streams leaves much to be desired (usually 360p or 720p)

Therefore, it is recommended to select streams separately and merge them.

video = yt.streams.best_video()
audio = yt.streams.best_audio()

Learn more about ways to filter streams here.

Downloading

The downloader works asynchronously.

async def main():
	await yt.download(video=video, audio=audio)()

asyncio.run(main())

If you want to track the download progress you can define the progress function.

async def progress(current, total):
	print(current, "/", total, end="\r")

async def main():
	file = await yt.download(video=video, audio=audio)(
		"downloads", on_progress=progress
	)

asyncio.run(main())

More information about downloading here.

Playlist

link = "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBnetXbvs5BGzGIsoxe6MYhX1hB7iRoOD"
playlist = MyTube.Playlist(link)

print(playlist.title)
print(len(playlist.videos))

for video in playlist.videos:
	print(video.streams)

Discover more playlists usage examples here.