archie722 / video_downloader

A python program that uses Youtube-dl (a command line tool) to download single or multiple video files

Video_Downloader - Python 3

A python program that provides a simple interface to the Youtube-dl (command line tool) to download single or multiple video files.

Prerequisites

python 3.X

Install YouTube-dl

How to use

• This version uses Python 3.X

• Install YouTube-dl using the link provided for your mac/PC

• Create a folder that that you want the videos to be saved in

• Change the path to this folder in final-mac.py (see comments in final-mac.py)

• Run $python final-mac.py from Terminal (mac) or command prompt (Windows) (from the folder the files are saved in)

• Enjoy

What you can do

• Download a single video
• Download a playlist of videos
• Download several videos by copying and pasting the individual urls into a .txt file

Works on YouTube and other popular video streaming websites (as of April 2019)

Do not download or distribute copywrited material