yt2mp4

Download YouTube videos and playlists as MP4 files (and other formats)

Get geckodriver

Linux (Debian)

sudo apt install wget ffmpeg firefox-esr -y
wget https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/v0.30.0/geckodriver-v0.30.0-linux64.tar.gz
sudo tar xvzf geckodriver-v0.30.0-linux64.tar.gz -C /usr/bin/
chmod +x /usr/bin/geckodriver
rm geckodriver-v0.30.0-linux64.tar.gz

Other

Figure it yourself

Installation

From PyPI

pip3 install yt2mp4

From GitHub

pip3 install git+https://github.com/donno2048/yt2mp4

Usage

In Python

from yt2mp4 import download
download("dQw4w9WgXcQ", outname='output.mp4') # dowload video from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ and name it output.mp4
# will also work:
# download("dQw4w9WgXcQ", outname='output.mp4', binary_path=path) # use a different binary path
# download("youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ", output="output.mov")
# download("youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ")
# download("www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ", output="output.mov")
# download("music.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ", output="output.mov")
# download("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ", output="output.mov")
# download("https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ", output="output.mov")
# download("https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ")

In cmd

# each of those will convert to another format
yt2mp4 # or python3 -m yt2mp4
yt2webm
yt2mkv
yt2flv
yt2wmv
yt2avi
yt2mov
yt2m4v
yt2mp3

Download playlist

For this you will have to configure a YouTube API key

Get API key

1. Go to the Developer console dashboard and click on CREATE PROJECT, you can name the project and then press CREATE
2. Now go to the Credentials tab and click on CREATE CREDENTIALS and choose API key, copy the API key you see and save it somewhere safe, then you can click on CLOSE
3. Now go to the YouTube API tab and click on ENABLE

In Python

from yt2mp4 import download_playlist
download_playlist(id, api_key)
'''
 - the first argument is the id of the playlist, you can pass either of the following forms
                    - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=***********&list=PLAYLIST_ID
                    - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAYLIST_ID
                    - PLAYLIST_ID
 - the second argument is the API key
 - the third is the extension, the default value is 'mp4'
 - the fourth one is the fps, the default value is 60
 - the last one is the binary path to the geckodriver
'''

In cmd

# each of those will convert to other formats
ytp2mp4
ytp2webm
ytp2mkv
ytp2flv
ytp2wmv
ytp2avi
ytp2mov
ytp2m4v
ytp2mp3

Supported formats

• mp4
• webm
• mkv
• flv
• wmv
• avi
• mov
• m4v
• mp3 (auto format as audio)