/Youtube-Video-Download-Assistant

This is a python script I wrote that utilizes pytube to download youtube videos to a specified folder from a list of links serperated by new lines.

Primary LanguagePythonGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

Introduction

This is a simple python 3 script that lets you use pytube and tkinter to download a list of youtube videos to a folder.

Installation

You can use the portable executable in the repo above or download the script and run it yourself.

In order for the executable to work you may need to install Visual Studio C++ Redistributable(s) from Microsoft.

Make sure you have pytube installed by running the following command

pip3 install pytube

It also makes use of tkinter which comes with python 3

Usage

In order to use the program you simply need to run the python script. This can be done by running the following command in powershell if you have python set up correctly.

python .\youtubeDownloader.py

Citation and Licensing

This project is under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3.
This mean you are free to do whatever you like with it as long as you are not distrubing closed source vertions, disclosing changes made to the project, include a copyright notice and copy of the license with any distrobutions, and understand that this license apply to any projects based on this code. For more information see the file titled COPYING.txt in the repo.

The progress bar function in the termanal is code I found on stack overflow from Github and Stack Exchange User “Greenstick”.