Programming

How To Build a Web App To Download YouTube Videos in 30 Lines of Code — Python Project Tutorials

Rahul Banerjee
Towards AI

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We will be using Streamlit and pytube to build our youtube downloader web app. I will also give a brief overview of the pytube library.

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We will be implementing the following features

  • The ability for the user to give the URL as an input
  • If available, the ability to chose between video with audio/audio download

Setup Virtual Environment

Before we start, we will need to set up and activate a virtual environment

pip install virtualenv /* Install virtual environment */ virtualenv venv /* Create a virtual environment */ 
venv/Scripts/activate /* Activate the virtual environment */

Install Required Libraries

We will need to install the following Libraries

Streamlit

pytube

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