A step-by-step Python tutorial with source code

How to make your own YouTube downloader

Download a video, playlist videos, or an entire YouTube channel using Python and PyTube package

Intro

There are lots of YouTube downloader services, free or premium. If you are curious how these services may work or you like to have a YouTube downloader of your own, you can read this article and create a simple YouTube downloader. You can benefit from this for your personal use or use this code to build something more extensive like a YouTube downloader service or any other kind of YouTube integration you may need.

Please respect the publishers right to the content and YouTube's terms of service, and make sure not to break any rules there.

We will use the PyTube package with Flask framework to create a simple web page that makes it easy to download a single video, videos of a playlist, or an entire channel’s videos.

So first thing first, let’s start by installing both Flask and PyTube packages:

pip install pytube
pip install Flask

Don’t forget to use pip3 instead of pip if you needed.

Introducing PyTube package