automateYT 1.0.0

automateYT is lightweight library that automates downloading of youtube videos, subtitles (if available) and playlist.

automateYT

automateYT is lightweight library for automating to download youtube videos, subtitles (if available) and playlist.

Installation

automateYT requires an installation of python 3.6 or greater and pytube, as well as pip. Pip is typically bundled with python installations, and you can find options for how to install python at https://python.org.

• To install from pypi with pip:

pip install automateYT

• Clone GitHub repository

git clone https://github.com/umutambyi-gad/automateYT

Overview

Classes:

• Timing
• Automate

Methods:

• after()
• info()
• generate_watch_url_from_playlist()
• download()
• download_subtitle()
• download_playlist()
• shutdown()

Usage

First of all import Automate class from automateYT

from automateYT import Automate

Quick demo: let's say you want to download three videos and their subtitles after two hours and half and when it's done the computer shuts down itself

from automateYT import Automate
from automateYT import Timing

Timing().after('2h-30m') # or Automate().after('2h-30m') since Automate extends Timing
Automate([
	'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w',
	'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4tHL8reNCs',
	'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4tHL8reNCs'
]).download(subtitle=True, location='C:/Users/GentleMan/videos', shutdown=True)

The above script will download all given videos and output them on C:/Users/GentleMan/videos but if you didn't specify location by default will in the Downloads and also script will pick the highest resolution available but what if you want to customize the videos' resolution just see the following example.

Automate(url_with_res={
	'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w': '720p',
	'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4tHL8reNCs': '1080p',
	'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4tHL8reNCs': '144p'
}).download(subtitle=True, shutdown=True)

Watch closely before passing dict where keys are valid watch urls and values are valid resolution I passed an argument called url_with_res it's an obligation to pass argument before the dict otherwise it will raise an error but cool thing is that you don't have to memorize this url_with_res you can simply rename it to whatever you want without any further configurations just like.

Automate(watchUrls_with_their_resolution={
    'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w': '720p',
    ...
})...

Now you saw how to download them but we have passed watch url on in Automate class like Automate('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w') so what makes you think it's the true watch url here is how you can view major information about the watch url.

info = Automate(
    'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w'
).info()
print(info)

Output will be something like -

[
    {
        "watch_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w",
        "video_id": "XqZsoesa55w",
        "title": "Baby Shark Dance | #babyshark Most Viewed Video | Animal Songs | PINKFONG Songs for Children",
        "thumbnail_url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XqZsoesa55w/maxresdefault.jpg",
        "author": "Pinkfong! Kids' Songs & Stories",
        "publish_date": "2016-06-17",
        "type": "video/mp4",
        "filesize": "11.4MiB",
        "available_resolution": [
            "144p",
            "240p",
            "360p",
            "480p",
            "720p",
            "1080p"
        ],
        "highest_resolution": "1080p",
        "lowest_resolution": "360p",
        "views": "8,350,191,773",
        "rating": 3.7,
        "age_restricted": false
    }
]

As you can see the output above is in json format but what if you prefer yaml format than json just pass keyword string yaml as an argument in the info like -

info = Automate(
    ('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w',)
).info('yaml')
print(info)

Output will be in yaml format -

-   age_restricted: false
    author: Pinkfong! Kids' Songs & Stories
    available_resolution:
    - 144p
    - 240p
    - 360p
    - 480p
    - 720p
    - 1080p
    filesize: 11.4MiB
    highest_resolution: 1080p
    lowest_resolution: 360p
    publish_date: '2016-06-17'
    rating: 3.7
    thumbnail_url: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XqZsoesa55w/maxresdefault.jpg
    title: 'Baby Shark Dance | #babyshark Most Viewed Video | Animal Songs | PINKFONG
        Songs for Children'
    type: video/mp4
    video_id: XqZsoesa55w
    views: 8,350,191,773
    watch_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w

And we all know that youtube can have playlist which contains couple of videos, the following is how you can generate watch urls of every single video from the playlist.

from pprint import pprint

watchUrls = Automate(
    "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS1QulWo1RIaJECMeUT4LFwJ-ghgoSH6n"
).generate_watch_url_from_playlist()
pprint(watchUrls)

An output will be something like -

[
    'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9TZb0XBow0',
    'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26VtIlzEcmU',
    'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41qgdwd3zAg',
    ...
]

So not only you can generate watch urls from playlist url but also you can download them all or provide an integer limit argument to limit videos to be downloaded from the playlist.

Automate(
    "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS1QulWo1RIaJECMeUT4LFwJ-ghgoSH6n"
).download_playlist(limit=10)

Remember if you don't specify location by default will be in Downloads don't worry about on what platform you are on. and also you can download their subtitles to by passing this subtitle=True argument.

Documentation

Timing

class for converting string time looks like (2h:30m, 2h30m, or 2h-30m) into seconds and delay time

Automate

Class with methods for automating to download youtube videos as either videos or audios, subtitles (if available) and generating watch urls from youtube playlist.

Automate(*urls: tuple or list,**urls_with_res: dict)

:param: list or tuple urls:
         valid list or tuple of YouTube watch URLs.

:param: dict urls_with_res:
         dict where keys are valid YouTube watch URLs and values are valid video resolutions.

after

Method for delaying time which are in format of human readable time (2h:30m)

Timing().after('20m:15s')

:param: str time
         string time for delaying which written in human readable format - ex. 2h:30m or 2h-30m or 30s where h -> hours, m -> minutes and s -> second

info

Method for giving some useful information about the youtube videos in easy and readable format.

Automate('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w').info()

-- or --

Automate('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w').info('yaml')

:param: str fmt
         String ftm (format) controls the return type by default is json and other available format is yaml
:rtype: yaml or json

generate_watch_url_from_playlist

Method for generating valid youtube watch urls from the youtube playlist

Automate(
    'https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS1QulWo1RIaJECMeUT4LFwJ-ghgoSH6n'
).generate_watch_url_from_playlist()

:rtype: list

download

Method for downloading of custom resolution YouTube videos as videos or audio and also subtitles (if available)

Automate(
    'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w',
).download(
    subtitle=True,
    location='C:/Users/GentleMan/videos',
    only_audio=True,
    shutdown=True
)

:param: str location
         location path on your computer to save the downloads, by default is in Downloads

:param: bool highest_res
         if highest_res is True the script gets the highest resolution available

:param: bool lowest_res
         if lowest_res is True the script gets the lowest resolution available

:param: bool subtitle
         if subtitle is True english version or english auto generated subtitle is downloaded within its video

:param: bool shutdown
         if shutdown is True the computer shuts down after downloads is completely done

:param: bool only_audio
         if only_audio is True audio only is downloaded

download_subtitle

Method for downloading YouTube video's subtitles (if available) or auto generated one in whatever language

Automate(
    'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w',
).download(
    location='C:/Users/GentleMan/videos',
    lang_code='en',
    auto_generated=False,
    shutdown=True
)

:param: str lang_code
         language code of the subtitle to automate its downloading notice that the default is 'en' (English).

:param: str auto_generated
         by default True, this downloads auto generated version of the same language code in absence of offical one.

:param: str location
         location on your computer to save the downloads, by default is in Downloads.

:param: bool shutdown
         if shutdown is True the computer shuts down after downloads is completely done.

download_playlist

Method for downloading youtube playlist till the limit given is reached

Automate(
    "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS1QulWo1RIaJECMeUT4LFwJ-ghgoSH6n"
).download_playlist(
    limit=30
)

:param: str location
         location on your computer to save the downloads, by default is in Downloads.

:param: bool highest_res
         if highest_res is True the script gets the highest resolution available.

:param: bool lowest_res
         if lowest_res is True the script gets the lowest resolution available.

:param: int limit
         integer limit limits the number of the videos to be downloaded.

:param: bool subtitle
         if subtitle is True english version or english auto generated subtitle is downloaded within its video.

:param: bool shutdown
         if shutdown is True the computer shuts down after downloads is completely done.

License

This project is under the MIT license