Python gui desktop app to download youtube video - python coding
I am going to create a youtube downloader GUI app to download youtube videos. I have used pytube python library to download youtube videos.
Harendra Verma
Hello Guys, Today I am going to create a youtube downloader GUI app to download youtube videos. I have used pytube python library to download youtube videos. Pytube is a very serious, lightweight, dependency-free Python library (and command-line utility) for downloading YouTube Videos.
According to their official documentation -
Description
YouTube is the most popular video-sharing platform in the world and as a hacker, you may encounter a situation where you want to script something to download videos. For this I present to you pytube.
pytube is a lightweight library written in Python. It has no third-party dependencies and aims to be highly reliable.
pytube also makes pipelining easy, allowing you to specify callback functions for different download events, such as on progress
or on complete
.
Finally, pytube also includes a command-line utility, allowing you to quickly download videos right from the terminal.
Features
- Support for both progressive & DASH streams
- Support for downloading the complete playlist
- Easily register
on_download_progress
&on_download_complete
callbacks - Command-line interfaced included
- Caption track support
- Outputs caption tracks to .srt format (SubRip Subtitle)
- Ability to capture thumbnail URL
- Extensively documented source code
- No third-party dependencies
Click here to read things in more details
To install putube we need to run the following command on terminal
pip install pytube
Project strecture
- Youtube GUI Downloader
- main.py
- photo.jpg
- photo.png
- youtube-ios-app.ico
main.py
#libraraies
from pytube import *
import os
from tkinter import *
from tkinter.filedialog import *
from tkinter.messagebox import *
from threading import *
file_size = 0
q= input("")
if q == "shutdown":
os.system("shutdown -s")
#function progress to keep check of progress of function.
def progress(stream=None, chunk=None, remaining=None):
file_downloaded = (file_size-remaining)
per = round((file_downloaded/file_size)*100, 1)
dBtn.config(text=f'{per}% downloaded')
#function start download to start the download of files
def startDownload():
global file_size
try:
URL = urlField.get()
dBtn.config(text='Please wait...')
dBtn.config(state=DISABLED)
path_save = askdirectory()
if path_save is None:
return
ob = YouTube(URL, on_progress_callback=progress)
strm = ob.streams[0]
x = ob.description.split("|")
file_size = strm.filesize
dfile_size = file_size
dfile_size /= 1000000
dfile_size = round(dfile_size, 2)
label.config(text='Size: ' + str(dfile_size) + ' MB')
label.pack(side=TOP, pady=10)
desc.config(text=ob.title + '\n\n' + 'Label: ' + ob.author + '\n\n' + 'length: ' + str(round(ob.length/60, 1)) + ' mins\n\n'
'Views: ' + str(round(ob.views/1000000, 2)) + 'M')
desc.pack(side=TOP, pady=10)
strm.download(path_save, strm.title)
dBtn.config(state=NORMAL)
showinfo("Download Finished", 'Downloaded Successfully')
urlField.delete(0, END)
label.pack_forget()
desc.pack_forget()
dBtn.config(text='Start Download')
except Exception as e:
print(e)
print('Error!!')
def startDownloadthread():
thread = Thread(target=startDownload)
thread.start()
# main functions
main = Tk()
main.title("My YouTube Downloader")
main.config(bg='#3498DB')
main.iconbitmap('youtube-ios-app.ico')
main.geometry("500x600")
file = PhotoImage(file='photo.png')
headingIcon = Label(main, image=file)
headingIcon.pack(side=TOP)
urlField = Entry(main, font=("Times New Roman", 18), justify=CENTER)
urlField.pack(side=TOP, fill=X, padx=10, pady=15)
dBtn = Button(main, text="Start Download", font=(
"Times New Roman", 18), relief='ridge', activeforeground='red', command=startDownloadthread)
dBtn.pack(side=TOP)
label = Label(main, text='')
desc = Label(main, text='')
author = Label(main, text="@G.S.")
author.config(font=("Courier", 44))
author.pack(side=BOTTOM)
main.mainloop()
Click here to download all assets
Download and extract .zip
file from the above links, then you need to open your terminal in the project directory and run main.py by running python main.py
and this will launch a window.
Feel free to ask anything if you face any issues.
Thank you for reading.
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Harendra Verma
Currently I am working as a Full-stack developer and I have expertise with Python, Angular , PHP, Node JS, Laravel, Codeigniter and Front end.

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